Steve & Gina's Small Town Salute-Tekamah, Nebraska

Lainey joins "Steve & Gina in the Morning" to salute Tekamah, Nebraska-another great small town in Kat Country!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's time for Steve and Gina's Small Town Salute on
CAD one oh three point seven.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey, it's Laney and today we're taking a trek to
Takema about an an hour. Oh my gosh, laugh. Hey,
it's Laney and today we're taking a trek to Takema
about an hour north of Omaha along the US Highway
seventy five corridor. Takema stands for big cottonwoods in the
Omaha Ponka language.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I did not know that.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, it's actually really fitting because there used to be
a lot of cottonwood trees growing along the banks of
the creek today. Summit Lake State Recreation Park also steals
the show as an impressive one hundred and ninety acre
lake with three hundred and fifty four acres of land
where folks ride horses, participate in archery, hike, hunt, boat,
and camp. The Burt County Museum in Takema is an

(00:49):
incredible complex that makes you feel like you're stepping into
a time machine. The nineteen oh four E. C. Houston
House features a third floor ballroom with a massive stained
glass skylight. In early seventeen hundred painting of the Last Supper.
A one room schoolhouse and even a historic bridge that
spent thirty years in Missouri before finding its way back home.

(01:10):
One of Takaima's most famous residents was Hoot Gibson. Hoot Gibson,
the rodeo champion turned Hollywood star who earned a place
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Long before he appeared on the silver screen, Gibson spent
his childhood in Takema, where he learned to ride horses
and developed the skills that would launch him into rodeo
and movie startup. There's a new one on me, Gibson.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
I didn't know that either.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
And with that we salute to Cayma, Nebraska, another great
small town in Cat Country population one thousand, seven hundred fourteenth.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
The small Town Salute part of the Friday Celebration with
Stephn Tina in the morning on the iHeartRadio app and
Kat one of three point seven