SumTur Amphitheater, Papillion, NE

 Sum Tur Amphitheater is next to the Nebraska Viet Nam Memorial.  It is a venue with 350 permanent seats and room for 2000 more people on the lawn behind the permanent seats.  They do summer movies and concerts and Tai Chi and Yoga classes.  Located on 108th south of the 370.  

Italian Mural: South Omaha Mural Project

 

The Italian Mural is not in South Omaha, but it is in keeping with the common theme of representing different cultures which made up South Omaha.  The mural is located on the corner of Seventh street and Pacific on Orsi's Italian Bakery and Pizzeria.  The bakery has been there since 1916.  It is in the heart of Little Italy.  The mural has an Italian theme showing the boat bringing people to Ellis Island.   Two brothers came here from Carlentini near Sicily.  They set up a bank and then made arrangements for others from Carlentini to come to America.  There are now more descendants from Carlentini in Omaha than residents of Carlentini.  There are also religious themes and Italian food.

Santa Lucia in the tree 

Many Italians worked for the railroad, others ran businesses

in the garden at the bakery

the famous fork is around the corner at a restaurant

Omaha Sunset and Omaha Visitors Center

A nice sunset the other day from Charity's house.  

Earlier we were at Gene Leahy Mall.  The Omaha Visitors Center is just a block from the mall to the south.  The visitors center has many brochures about what to see i the Omaha area.  I filled myself up with them.  

Omaha National Cemetery in Papillion

 The National Veterans Cemetery in Papillion is very impressive.  They also have plenty of room to expand.  There are also vaults for thos who may have been cremated.  There are two outdoor structures for funeral ceremonies.  It is a large complex.  It is on Schram Road off of highway 50.

Charity's Spring Concert with Omaha Sings

Nothing I like more than hearing my kids sing.  They are so much more talented than I am,  Charity sings with Sing Omaha woman's choir.  There was also a girls choir and a master chorale  which is a mixed group.  Their spring concert was based on a theme of "Choral Canvases: Where Art and Music Meet." Each of the songs was related to a poem about nature.  The concert was conducted by Dr. Matt Hill.  He wrote the music to three of the poems, and had artwork commissioned based on the theme.  These were "Afternoon on a Hill" by Edna Vincent Millay, "Kraken" by Alfred Lord Tennyson and "Shall I Compare thee to a Summer's Day" by William Shakespeare.  

The Kraken

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1809 –

1892

Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumbered and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge sea worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,

In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

These are a couple short excerpts from her spring concert.   

The Kraken

By Bev Hill

Dr. Jim Martin

Anna Cheeswright