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Jeff Barnes Presents “Sand Hills and Sandlots” on March 27th- Historian, Jeff Barnes, will present “Sand Hills and Sandlots” at the South Sioux City Public Library on Monday night, March 27th at 6:30 p.m.  The presentation is a part of the One Book One Siouxland programming, promoting the novel Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella. 

“Sand Hills and Sandlots: is the story of the panhandle town of Rushville, which loved and played baseball like most Nebraska communities. Unlike all others, it was the recipient of a beautiful ball field from the state’s biggest rancher and the host of a Major League baseball school and try-out camp, whose students included a Nebraska boy who struck out Mickey Mantle. Barnes tells the fascinating story of Rushville’s 130 years with baseball and how residents past and present came together in 2014 to rebuild Nebraska’s own “field of dreams.”

A fifth-generation Nebraskan, Jeff Barnes is a former newspaper reporter and editor, trustee with the Nebraska State Historical Society, past chairman of the Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission, and former marketing director for the Durham Museum. 

The program is sponsored by Humanities Nebraska and the Country Charmers through the HN Speakers Bureau. Speakers Bureau connects Nebraskans with over 165 authors, historians, scholars, musicians, and storytellers who give performances and speak on topics as diverse as the immigrant experience, Great Plains history, world folk music, Nebraska literature, international law, and Native American culture.

. Programs are available for any non-profit or educational organization in the state and can be tailored based on the age and size of the audience. More information about how to book speakers through the Humanities Nebraska Speakers Bureau can be found online at www.humanitiesnebraska.org .