Lincoln Nebraska

Sue says that she wants to visit the state capitals so that she will remember them when testing the grandchildren in years to come. Lincoln has a population of about 226,000 people and is a financial center for Nebraska. The Capitol Building and surrounding government buildings did not give the appearance of a big city. We easily drove around Lincoln and parking spaces were plentiful. While in Lincoln we visited the Germans from Russia Museum. Bob's brother, Vic, always said that our Polish grandfather came from Russia because he saw his Russian Military uniform. Bob had German friends growing up who understood Polish and Bob could understand some of their dialects as well. Catherine the Great of Russia in 1762 invited Western Europeans to settle along the Great Volga River. Germans colonized also moving into the Polish and Ukranian area known as Volhynia. Bob's Polish grandfather may have come from this region. It makes sense since he always spoke of leaving Europe when the Russian Revolution of 1917 was about to begin. This has opened many questions for Bob and someday when we're off the road he will do more research regarding this matter. While visiting the museum and afterwards the grounds there were gentlemen putting items in the small church and invited us to take a look inside. It was filled with all kinds of church artifacts from different churches representing the different religions practiced in this area. Some items were from the Mennonites, the Catholics, the Protestants, Lutherans and Russian Orthodox churches and other sects as well. I especially liked the Russian icons which were nicely displayed.