Slowly nibbling Ciro Guerra’s film Los viajes del viento (“The Wind Journeys”) with a cup of espresso cortado while editing photos of Otoe County Courthouse in a 30-degree icy winter night. Next up is Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: With Applications To Physics, Biology, Chemistry, And Engineering by Steven H. Strogatz accompanied by Wendy Sutter’s performance of “Songs and Poems for Solo Cello” by Philip Glass. Tooth fairies and nightmares have to wait.

Otoe County Courthouse, located in downtown Nebraska City, is the oldest public building in Nebraska. This Italianate courthouse, erected in 1864 and completed in 1865, was designed by architect A. G. Bassett and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1976.