By Kerry Hoffschneider As a boy, you could find Patrick Freeze joyfully immersed in the red, clay soils in Hamilton, Texas. One of seven children’s hardworking, blue-collar parents, he learned the art of outdoors early on on his small farm. “My granddad was a retired fisherman and shrimper. I was originally from the coast of…
By Kerry Hoffschneider When Jacob Tejral first went to Chadron State College, he was still thinking along the lines of traditional ways of farming. He grew up south of Pleasant Dale, Nebraka where he grew up raising feeder hogs and a few cows. In his first semester at Chadron State he took a class with…
By Kerry Hoffschneider The first day of class with his freshman students at Chadron State College, Dr. Ron Bolze writes in “Dr.” Prefix on the board, draw a circle around it, and then a line through it. “Just call me Ron,” Bolze said. “We don’t need to trouble ourselves with titles.” What Bolze does wants…
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