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The LEAD Podcast is hosted by Siouxland Public Media's Sheila Brummer

Margaret F. Kelley came to Fremont, NE, in May of 1870 and settled on a farm on Maple Creek. Four years later, she and the family were visited by grasshoppers. "I had never formed an idea of anything so disastrous," she wrote in her memoir. That's just another way of saying that, to her, the grasshopper plague was beyond unimaginable.

The LEAD Podcast is hosted by Siouxland Public Media's Sheila Brummer

The LEAD Podcast is hosted by Siouxland Public Media's Sheila Brummer

If you can believe it, once there were two churches here: "the high church," sitting atop the bluff behind the one we're looking at, and this one, "the low church," both of them both old and Danish, and each as bull-headed as the other. Religious fights are never all bucolic. Typical better describes.

In response to the western push of slavery, a new liberal party emerges.