Word: ak-sar-ben
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...black cigar. Eleven appropriately furnished floats represented "The Parade of Nations." On a twelfth float was a large kettle decked with flags-"The Melting Pot." Beside the pot, as the Goddess of Liberty stood Miss Jean Redick, who also did service during the celebration as Queen of Ak-Sar-Ben and a Comanche maiden...
Climax of the celebration was the pageant "The Making of Nebraska" at Ak-Sar-Ben field with 1.300 performers. It began at the geological beginning. Several men carrying torches represented volcanoes and lava. Groups of maidens took the parts of stars, seas, land, flowers. Girls in white garments were the Glacier. Girls in bulky costumes typified Solid Land. In Act II a band of Sioux chased a band of Pawnees, then performed a Sun Dance. Next came Spanish conquistadors, French Jesuits, Scouts Lewis and Clark, frontiersmen, Stephen A. Douglas. To end the pageant all joined in singing "The Star-Spangled...