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Narrator (0:00)
And everybody at the Institute for Outdoor Drama and welcome to Kearney, Nebraska, or, more accurately welcome to about four miles south of Kearney, Nebraska. This is if you see that line of trees over there you can see that that's the Platte River. And if you look very carefully after we pass this farmhouse, you will see the crane and some of the construction on the archway that's going on way in the distance there. This is just to give you an idea of where the location that we've identified for the outdoor drama, future outdoor drama will be. As you can see, this is a nice road that could take a significant amount of traffic there's there's some farm houses but certainly not anything that would be closely resembling residential going out here. You basically go about three miles south of Kearney, and then make a left and go about four miles to the Fort Kearney Recreation Area. And we are quickly coming up on that. And I'll show you that here in just a second. Here we are coming up on the Fort Kearney Recreation or the fort Kearney State Park. This is the actual historic site for the park itself. Coming along right here. As you can see, there's some historic buildings in the stockade and so forth. There's the rangers house. But that site itself is not a very good one for the outdoor drama. But two miles to the east is another site. It's basically a campsite and I'll show you that.

(2:21)
Okay, here we are going to the campsite. This is taken at about 4:30 in the afternoon, February so the position of the sun is for like it would be five o'clock I guess in the afternoon in the summer, I don't know. But you go about a half mile down the road to the recreation area. And as you can see all around there are cornfields, basically, agriculture, there's some houses, but nothing that would create any kind of a problem for the outdoor drama.

(3:24)
Yeah, here we go into the area that I'm talking about. This area right in here is a lake. It's one of a number of lakes out here, but this is a small lake. And as you can see, there's already some amenities. Because it's a state park, there's water, electricity, so forth.

(3:58)
Park right here. This is where we just drove in. And I just wanted to show you this line here of where I think on the other side of the highway could certainly be more than ample acreage for any kind of parking. As you can see in this area right in here. That's not tilled. There's certainly a fairly significant amount of ground here for any kind of parking lot. There's also a very significant amount of ground here in the foreground. Before you get to the areas that I think the amphitheater would be located on. This is oh, I don't know how many acres it would be but as you can see, it's more than a ample for the building of ticket office ticket office and gift shop and any thing else. One of the windiest days that you have out here in Nebraska so far. This line of trees right here in the foreground right here is over that ledge or hill is where I think the drama should be alright this is the hill that I was referring to.

(5:56)
Go up over this hill, it's very nice [inaudible] for the beach area.

(6:19)
Very nice.

(6:31)
And this lake but the ends of which are obscured from the view the audience from this location would represent Platte River.

(6:46)
And as you can see on the north side of the lake, there is a very nice line of trees and shrubbery. Which unfortunately in February has little or no foliage on it you can see there are definite possibilities here.

(7:28)
The other this would be the stage area that we're walking into right now. Facing proximately north northwest this area, the sandy area is about 50 feet. Now as you can see, on one side stage, there's a road that comes into the stage area

(8:06)
Back toward where the audience will be. And as you can see, the state there is a road that goes out the other way. So this would be perfect for the audience. I mean, not for the audience. This would be perfect for stagecoach, [inaudible]. Pony Express, rider exchange, whatever.

(8:41)
Now this is the road that you just saw. This is the road just east of the lake. And I wanted to show you the road that we were on comes around in a circle. This wouldn't be a superb spot. But cast parking and that sort of thing. This is to show you also you can see the hill where the amphitheater would be and you can see that there would be more than adequate acreage over here or dressing rooms, set storage everything else that the cast would need. And we'll walk around to the north side here. This is the north side of the lake. There's a little dock thing tell very well right here, but there's basically two lines of trees

(9:57)
Here's the lake of course. This this line of trees there. And the thing I wanted to also note was how much acreage there was here on the north side for other accoutrements or the outdoor drama like to keep horses, other animals, things like that. Yeah, we're walking along the lake and there's the

(10:51)
here's certainly one area, that would be good for the launching of some kind of scene involving the river on the opposite side.

(11:23)
You know, see if I can get as good a view as I can here. Basically, that's where the theater would be right there, where the audience would be that dead tree is looking over this way. And again, here's this beach area, with the road going on. We're just a little bit beyond where we were, this is a road area, or a pathway. You can see the lake right there. This is a pathway. Actually, I should do this backwards. I'll show you this. So you won't be in the sun.

(12:25)
I walked to the west end of the lake to give you an idea. So where the sun would be at our back here, again, is the stage area, you can see right there looking down onto the lake itself. What I wanted to show you here continue to walk over to the north side of its Lake, which is about three football lengths long as this illustrates better than the other view. There's actually two lines of trees, you can see this line of cottonwoods and so forth right here. And then there's a line of theatres and cottonwoods right along the bank. And if you look carefully, you can see that there is a basically sort of a man made path here that the rangers have started out here with this line of theatres and for trees, allow any performers to get into place obstructed from the view of the audience. And not only that, but the second line of trees here will hide any sort of equipment or buildings or anything like that, on the other side, that might be used within the drama itself. But here, but over there is the lake and here is again this pathway which might also be better served if we were well there's one possibility is that we could cut down the line of cedars along the lake so that this pathway could be used as a road as it were for the To backlight and to use it like Texas uses its road but I'm not sure that the park rangers would allow us to do something quite that drastic.

(15:18)
Okay, if you'll indulge me just a couple more minutes I wanted to just drive around the road around this area and just give you an idea again of a kind of a proportion. As you can see there is a lot of area here for all sorts of activity. This is the area to the east of the amphitheater location. This is where we would have dressing rooms and scenes prop and storage costumes, that sort of thing. Once again here is the entrance road to the beach area itself. We're driving around the lake this is the area that you haven't really seen. This is the area that I was talking about. That would be more than ample for any kind of storage of animals. Huge big props or anything like that. This area right in here. As you can see there's plenty of tree line to shield this area this area from the audience and we're now on the west end of the lake and you can get a better picture of how big that area is. And this is the area that we just walked down that path and the line of trees and so forth. And here once again is the lake with the stage area. We can put more shrubbery here to shield it from this road. That would be okay. And again, here's the ample frontage air acreage to and this is where we originally drove in. To see there's wide open spaces here for a lot of things. Okay. And here we are back where we started. And this is it.