Tag: nebraska

  • Moving forward — and backward

    Moving forward — and backward

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    A century ago, my grandmother Mary Lienert knew firsthand about freedom of mobility — both the upside and the downside. The purchase of a family automobile confined, rather than freed this young Nebraska farm wife, who never learned to drive. Before then, my father Bob Lienert wrote in a 1979 essay, my grandmother’s principal mode of…