In Lincoln there were opera cloaks and oysters in ice, but always in spring came the smell of burning prairie grass, for this was still the edge of the frontier, and the frontier still had teeth.
-Bernice Slote, “Writer in Nebraska,” in The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather’s First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966).
Digital Cornfield documents a summer well-spent at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. As a masters student at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, my time in Nebraska was made possible by an IMLS grant aimed at establishing connections between digital humanities centers and information schools.
