Seward Concordia Neighborhood

This is a blog about the residential neighborhood around two Lutheran (Missouri Synod) schools -- Concordia College (aka Concordia Teachers College or Concordia University) and St John Elementary School (St John School) -- in Seward, Nebraska.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

The Wilderness of Childhood

The New York Review of Books includes in its July 16,2009, issue an essay titled " Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood ,...

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Names of Graduates of St John School

St John School's website includes a webpage with information about the school's anniversary celebration, and that webpage includes...

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Historical Facts Rescued from Oblivion

Here’s some miscellaneous stuff that Toby Beck found while trolling through old Seward papers: From the Feb. 22, 1956, issue of the Indepe...

Another Old Photograph of Faculty Row

Tobin Beck provided this old picture of Faculty Row. He scanned the picture from an old postcard. The image has been uploaded to this Fl...

A 1955 Aerial Photograph of the Concordia Campus

Tobin Beck provided this image, which was scanned from an old photograph. The image has been uploaded to this Flickr webpage . Click o...

Thursday, June 25, 2009

An Old Panoramic Photograph of Concordia Campus

Marvin Bergman, who now occupies the old Sylwester house ( Faculty Lane House 1 ) on North Columbia Avenue, kindly arranged for some old pho...

Celebration of St John School's 125 Anniversary

I previously posted an article in this blog about St John School's celebration of its 125th anniversary. The celebration will take plac...

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