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.

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Finding Playboy Magazines in a Dormitory's Dumpster

In this blog I have written a couple of articles about finding things on campus: 1) Concordia College Freshman Beanie Caps , about findi...

The Solar Eclipse on July 20, 1963

I wish I could have been in Seward during the eclipse on August 21, 2017. When I was living in Seward, I experienced an eclipse that happe...

Sunday, April 9, 2017

A Virtual Tour of Concordia's Campus

You can take a virtual tour of the campus on this webpage . One of the videos shows the Music Center. That building now covers the space w...

Finding and Redeeming Empty Bottles of Husker Pop

Now I am an old man living in New Jersey. I often walk in a nearby park, and every time I am dismayed to see so many empty soda bottles disc...

Cold hands while delivering newspapers

One of my Seward acquaintances, Mark Stadsklev, recently posted on Facebook a photograph of a Jon-e Warmer that he won while working as a p...

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Watching the World Series During School

The recent World Series, which was decided on the seventh game, reminded me of two such World Series games that happened while I attended St...

Monday, July 4, 2016

The Seward Origins of My Mom's Religious Revolt

My mother, Ruth (née Maier) Sylwester died on May 12, 2016, at the age of 83. She enjoyed a long, happy life. She gave birth to and raised s...

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