Sad Standoff Deters the Telling of an Important History

Sad Standoff Deters the Telling of an Important History
Sad Standoff Deters the Telling of an Important History

ALL THINGS NEBRASKA

LINCOLN – As a kid, our grade school class was one of many that got to visit John Brown’s Cave in Nebraska City.

There was a cool log cabin, the Mayhew Cabin, hewn from local cottonwoods before Nebraska became a state.

There was this kinda spooky, underground “cave” -- a handmade tunnel to a nearby ravine that was billed as a hiding spot for slaves escaping bondage in nearby slave…