Posts Tagged ‘Lincoln’
Lester F. Larsen Tractor Test & Power Museum | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang The Lester F. Larsen Tractor Test & Power Museum helloed me with an unadorned “Tractor Museum” sign and its unfussy and non-nonsense vibe. Walking through museum’s massive collection of old tractors, I was suddenly tingled with a lovely feeling. I was honored with a once-in-a-life-time invitation to visit a distinguished club house of retired happy...
More →Nebraska Statehood Memorial | Lincoln, Nebraska | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang The Thomas P. Kennard House, a structure designated by the State Legislature as the Nebraska Statehood Memorial in 1965, was one of three masonries designed by John K. Winchell of Chicago in 1869 for members of the Capital Commission. The Commission, established to select a new state capital location with Governor David Butler, Auditor John Gillespie, and...
More →The Sunken Gardens | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang After few weeks of snow-snow-snow-and-more-snow, I almost forgot how to correctly wake up with sunshine exuberantly licking my frosty cheek. A quick peek outside of the window was enough to ascertain that today was the very first thoroughbred-sunny-day of February. Excited. I geared up. Jumpy like a puppy about to take his first outdoor walk. With Sam Taylor-Wood’s Prelude in...
More →National Roller Skating Museum | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang The mystery of the National Roller Skating Museum’s peculiar visiting hours, Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., was solved the second I walked into the building. The primary function of the space, as it appeared, served as the headquarters for the U.S.A. Roller Skating Confederation and the attached museum was essentially a roomful of wonderful roller-skating-things on the back...
More →Nebraska Governor's Mansion | Lincoln, Nebraska | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang The Nebraska Governor’s Mansion, designed by Selmer Solheim & Associates, is a modified Georgian Colonial architecture, was opened on March 17, 1958 with Victor Anderson, the twenty-ninth governor of Nebraska, as the its first resident. The mansion, featuring 31, including 5 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, 4 fireplaces, and one garage, was renovated and remodeled in 1997, adding ADA...
More →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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