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European Motorcycle Night at Haymarket | Lincoln, NE

European Motocycle Night Jen-Kuang Chang

European Motorcycle Night at Historic Haymarket in Downtown Lincoln, Nebraska is held every first Wednesday of April to October.  Riders of Euro-cycles, scooters, and dual sport  adventures gather in 8th Street from ‘P’ to ‘Q’ in the heart of Haymarket to showcase their fabulous rides.

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Water Tower Fountain at Iron Horse Park, Haymarket District

Water Tower Fountain at Iron Horse Park | Haymerket | Lincoln, Nebraska | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   The fountain at Iron Horse Park in Haymarket District in downtown Lincoln seemed to be a very popular Kodak-movement & canoodling hotspot in hot summer nights. I readied my field-recording gears, patiently browsing through Gabriel García Márquez’s short story “El Avión de la Bella Durmiente” (Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane)...

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Haymarket | Lincoln, Nebraska

Seriously, I repeatedly chanted a quote of Walt Whitman that "To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle" like a fake protection spell when visiting Haymarket in downtown Lincoln just few minutes before sunset. There were mosquitoes as big as Fluffy, the gigantic three-headed dog found in Harry Potter universe, and my herbal mosquito repellent was running dangerously...

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Iron Horse Park in Haymarket | Lincoln, Nebraska

Getting up so early to visit The Mill café in Haymarket District in downtown Lincoln to enjoy few hours of free parking was simply great, grand, and splendid. The Mill café at 7 in the morning was beguilingly filled with sounds bent by mostly elderly espresso inquirers. I got few free-and-most-appreciated mocha beans from a nice barista to go with my usual, the buoyant double-shot espresso, securely wrapping myself in...

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Humane Society Fountain | Haymarket

The Humane Society Fountain in the Haymarket District, donated by the National Humane Alliance in 1908 to mark the establishment of Lincoln's Humane Society in 1907, was originally built in the center of M Street between 8th and 9th streets with the aim to provide "refreshment for dogs, horse, and human." It features three lion-head spigots and four water basins at the base of the fountain. The fountain was relocated...

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The Watchful Citizen & Haymarket

The Watchful Citizen & Haymarket | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang Murky snowy day. 2:13 P.M. Alternate between dried cranberries, café noir, Ferrero Rondnoir Dark Chocolate, Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collection, and archiving sunny-happy-smiley photos taken in a sunny-happy-smiley November day in the Haymarket with the Watchful Citizen. Old memories like wide-eyed homeless kittens hungerily waiting right outside the door. Meow. The Watchful...

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