KEARNEY, Neb., Aug. 4 -- The University of Nebraska Kearney issued the following news release:
WHAT: Brown Bag Lecture Series
HOSTED BY: UNK Department of History and G.W. Frank Museum of History and Culture
TITLE: "The New Metropolitan Order of Things: Frank Business Failures in Kearney"
TOPIC: The namesake of the Frank Museum, George W. Frank, has long been regarded as part of the vanguard of Kearney's economic development in the late 19th century. Despite his purported success, he and his family perplexingly left the city just over a decade after they arrived. Although some of the Frank businesses did contribute to Kearney's development, new research has revealed that Frank was not the capable businessman he has been portrayed as. Hi...