Rebecca Bluestone, HORIZON/1, copyright 1998. 49 x 45 inches. Silk, dyes, metallic thread; tapestry and dyeing technique. In the collection of Robert Redford. Courtesy of Rebecca Bluestone.

Southwestern Weavings at the Great Plains Art Collection

On Feb. 16, the Great Plains Art Collection, the Flatwater Grill and the Handweavers Guild of Lincoln will host Inspiration of Color, Music and Line. This will include an artist talk by Rebecca Bluestone, music by Robert Bluestone, and a reception for the artists. It is free and open to the public.

Robert has earned an international reputation as a classical guitarist and tours regularly throughout the United States, Mexico, Australia, Canada and Central America. After receiving his master's degree in music he studied with the eminent Argentine guitarist, Manuel Lopez Ramos at the Instituto del Arte Guitarristico in Mexico City. Bluestone became the first foreign virtuoso ever to join the staff. In 1979 he was awarded a full scholarship to study and perform at the Andres Segovia Masters Class in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Rebecca Bluestone is a studio-trained tapestry artist. She studied with Hopi weaver Ramona Sakiestewa in New Mexico. Her technique combines the weaving traditions of three cultures of the Southwest; Native American, Spanish and contemporary European influences. In addition to numerous commissions Bluestone exhibits her work nationally in galleries, museums and universities. Her work will be on display at the Great Plains Art Collection until March 2.

Normal gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday: 1:30 to 5 p.m. on Sunday. The gallery is closed on Monday, major holidays and in between exhibitions.

Children of the Drum Arrive Feb. 21

KODO Drummers Bring Japan's Ancient Sounds to Lied

The internationally acclaimed Japanese drum ensemble KODO returns to the Lied Center for Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21.

Using the ancient Japanese drum the taiko, KODO preserves and re-interprets traditional Japanese art. The word kodo means heartbeat - the source of all rhythm, and the sound of the great taiko drum is said to resemble a mother's heartbeat as felt in the womb. The name 'Kodo' also means "children of the drum," a reflection of KODO's drumming style - lightly and with the heart of a child.

The 17-member ensemble, combines musical and athletic performance, spanning a diverse repertoire from traditional Japanese folk music to contemporary compositions. Other Japanese musical instruments, as well as

traditional dance and vocals are used in the performance.

Founded 20 years ago on Japan's Sado Island, KODO has become well known throughout the world. KODO has performed on five continents, and extensively in the United States. Since 1998, KODO has joined with the villages of Sado Island in an international music festival called "Earth Celebration," described by the New York Times as "Japan's leading world music event." The ensemble is also involved in the Cultural Foundation, manages the Kodo Apprentice Centre,

and conducts cultural research programs and workshops.

Kit Voorhees, director of UNL's Arts Are Basic program, will give a preperformance talk 30 minutes prior to curtain in the Lied's Steinhart room.

Tickets are $34, $30, and $26, half price for students. Call the Lied box office at 472-4747 or (800) 432-3231 for tickets.

Statewide Goes Inside Nebraska State Patrol Academy

Find out what it takes to become an officer in the Nebraska State Patrol when correspondent Mike Tobias takes viewers inside the patrol's training academy in a special two-part report, "Class 45: An Inside Look at State Patrol Training," beginning at 8 p.m. Feb. 16 on Statewide, the Nebraska ETV Network's weekly magazine series. The second part of the report will air at 8 p.m. Feb. 23.

Statewide, which includes up-to-the-minute news reports from across the state and other features of interest, repeats at 7:30 p.m. Saturdays, and 1:30 p.m. on Sundays. This episode repeats on NETV2 at 3 p.m. on Sundays.

Tobias' reports on the Patrol's 19-week paramilitary style training course, focusing on the motivations and experiences of four recruits: Beatrice native Ryan Henrichs, a former small-college football player enrolled at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Tony Kavan of Dunbar, an ex-Marine and son and nephew of Patrol veterans; Spalding native Jim Reilly, a UNL graduate and ex-Army officer; and Myron Bell of Bellevue, a mechanic with 20 years experience in the Air Force.

The first part of Tobias' report will examine the reason for the boot camp environment of Patrol training, including physical training, firearms training and classroom work.

The following week, the report will look at high-speed and pursuit driving techniques, self-defense training and graduation.

Story of Capital City's Namesake on NETV

This summer schoolchildren in the Lincoln area saved their pennies to help bring a bronze statue of the young Abraham Lincoln to the capital city. Now citizens across the state can discover the inside story about the turbulent lives of President Lincoln and first lady Mary Todd Lincoln when the Nebraska ETV Network broadcasts the American Experience series presentation of Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided. The three-part story airs at 8 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, Feb. 19-21.

NETV2 will rebroadcast each episode at midnight Feb. 19-21. NETV2 will re-air all three parts consecutively beginning at 6 p.m. on Feb. 24, and again at 2:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, Feb. 26-28.

A divided nation, a volatile economy, an ambitious first lady, deaths and consultation with spiritualists, political intrigue - all took place during the Lincoln Presidency as documented by David Grubin, producer, director and writer of Abraham Lincoln: A House Divided. David Morse is the voice of Abraham Lincoln; Holly Hunter is the voice of Mary Todd Lincoln; David McCullough narrates.

The program traces the relationship between Abraham Lincoln, a farmer's son who was determined to make something of himself, and Mary Todd, a Kentucky slave-owner's daughter who had strong political ambitions. As president, Lincoln became known as the "great emancipator," while his wife was viewed as a Confederate sympathizer. He became central to America's image of itself - more than any other chief executive. She died unnoticed and forgotten. Together they ascended to the pinnacle of power at one of the most troubling times in our nation's history.

High School Wrestling Championships NETV

One of Nebraska's most popular high school sporting events, the Nebraska High School Wrestling Championships, will be broadcast over all stations of the statewide Nebraska ETV Network beginning at 2 p.m. Feb. 17, as part of NETV Sports.

The four-hour coverage of the grappling competition is telecast from the Bob Devaney Sports Center and will feature a special quad-split television broadcast that enables viewers to see simultaneous coverage of matches in all four high school classes in the various weight divisions.

The high school wrestling championships will also be webcast live on NET Online http://net.unl.edu.

Dandelion Cuisine Featured on Outdoor Nebraska

Viewers can go on a spring turkey hunt with a youngster from Grand Island, join students from Kearney who are creating an outdoor classroom and get some tasty recipes to use those dandelions on this week's edition of Outdoor Nebraska on the statewide Nebraska ETV Network. This episode of the outdoor news magazine series airs at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22, and repeats at 8 a.m. Feb. 24. The program also repeats on NETV2 at noon on Feb. 25.

Join young Seth Roberts of Grand Island as he goes on his first turkey hunt last spring in north central Nebraska, then follow students from Kearney's Meadowlark Elementary School as they construct an outdoor classroom to help youngsters get a more hands-on look at plants and wildlife. Also featured is a program near Columbus where volunteers can help save the least tern and piping plover, two endangered and threatened bird species.

In another story, wildlife biologists suggest that landowners can help pheasants and quail by planting legumes in their fields located on Conservation Reserve Program-Management Access Program property. The scientists demonstrate by sweeping the vegetation with an insect net that there is a massive difference in insect food available for birds between the "un-legumed" and "legumed" areas.

In this week's "Wilderness Workshop" (held from a previous show), Dick Turpin gets crafty and demonstrates a neat way to preserve the turkey beard in the shell that harvested the bird. Then get ready for the "Nature Walk," which features naturalist Kay Young of Lincoln demonstrating how to prepare dandelion quiche and dandelion coffee.

Q&A Guests Recall the Rev. Martin Luther King

Two Nebraskans who met the Rev. Martin Luther King will discuss their memories of the great civil rights leader on Q&A, the Nebraska ETV Network's interview series, at 7 p.m. Feb. 22.

This episode of Q&A repeats on NETV2 at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 25, and at 8 a.m. Feb. 27.

Just three weeks after receiving the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, King delivered a major address at the Methodist Student Leadership Conference in Lincoln. Leola Bullock, who was the head of the Lincoln chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at the time, met King. Bullock and Albert Maxey, who was King's police escort, will discuss their experiences with Q&A host Ward Jacobson.

Author/Playwright Coleman Is Welsch Guest

William S. E. Coleman, playwright, professor of theatre arts at Drake University and author of Voices of Wounded Knee, will be the guest on Roger Welsch & when the interview series airs at 8 p.m. Feb. 17, and repeats at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 18, on the statewide Nebraska ETV Network. The program will repeat on NETV2 at noon on Feb. 19.

On Dec. 29, 1890, two weeks after the killing of Sitting Bull, the United States 7th Cavalry opened fire on nearly 300 Miniconjou Ghost Dancers near Wounded Knee Creek. In Voices of Wounded Knee, Coleman brings together for the first time all of the available sources - Lakota, military and civilian. Using accounts of participants and observers, Coleman reconstructs the massacre moment by moment. He places contradictory accounts in direct juxtaposition, allowing the reader to decide who was telling the truth. His well-researched, balanced treatment suggests that the massacre grew out of decades of broken treaties, cultural misunderstandings, power struggles between the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Army, and erroneous and inflammatory reports by irresponsible members of the press.

Coleman is a professor of theatre at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He and his wife spent nearly thirty years gathering documents from collections in the United States and abroad to create this book.

Statewide Goes Inside Nebraska State Patrol Academy

Find out what it takes to become an officer in the Nebraska State Patrol when correspondent Mike Tobias takes viewers inside the patrol's training academy in a special two-part report, "Class 45: An Inside Look at State Patrol Training," beginning at 8 p.m. Feb. 16 on Statewide, the Nebraska ETV Network's weekly magazine series. The second part of the report will air at 8 p.m. Feb. 23.

Statewide, which includes up-to-the-minute news reports from across the state and other features of interest, repeats at 7:30 p.m. Saturdays, and 1:30 p.m. on Sundays. This episode repeats on NETV2 at 3 p.m. on Sundays.

Tobias' reports on the Patrol's 19-week paramilitary style training course, focusing on the motivations and experiences of four recruits: Beatrice native Ryan Henrichs, a former small-college football player enrolled at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Tony Kavan of Dunbar, an ex-Marine and son and nephew of Patrol veterans; Spalding native Jim Reilly, a UNL graduate and ex-Army officer; and Myron Bell of Bellevue, a mechanic with 20 years experience in the Air Force.

The first part of Tobias' report will examine the reason for the boot camp environment of Patrol training, including physical training, firearms training and classroom work.

The following week, the report will look at high-speed and pursuit driving techniques, self-defense training and graduation.

Inspector Morse Bids Adieu to Mystery!

He has solved more crimes than Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple. Since his debut in 1988, he has endured longer than Jessica Fletcher of Murder She Wrote, Thomas Magnum of Magnum, P.I. and all of the detectives of Law & Order. But, as it must for all of us, the end is nigh for the intrepid Inspector Morse of public television's Mystery! series.

The finale episode in Inspector Morse's 13 seasons, The Remorseful Day, will air in its entirety beginning at 9 p.m. Feb. 22 on Mystery! on the statewide Nebraska ETV Network.

Morse, played by John Thaw, has built an audience of ardent fans in love with

the protagonist's quirky traits: his easygoing erudition, neglect of all things healthful, chronic failure at romance, addiction to crossword puzzles and unerring instinct for tracking down the latest clever killer to strike the astonishingly murder-prone university town of Oxford, England.

With the assistance of Sgt. Lewis (Kevin Whatley) and despite the nagging of Superintendent Strange (James Grout), perpetrators know it is only a matter of time before they are outed when Morse arrives at the scene of the crime in his classic red Jaguar sedan.

The Remorseful Day finds Morse probing the murder of Yvonne Harrison (Meg Davies), a 48-year-old nurse found battered to death and handcuffed naked to her bed. When Strange gets a couple of anonymous tips, he sidelines Morse and gives the case to Lewis. But Lewis finds Morse constantly dogging his trail. Could it have something to do with a clandestine friendship - even courtship - between Morse and the victim?

Naturally, Morse wangles his way back onto the case. It's a complicated mess that Morse and Lewis would normally unravel at a pub over a few pints - ale for Morse, orange juice for Lewis. But now it is Morse's body that is unraveling. Years of abuse have left him a wreck. No stranger to his friend's staggering bar tab, which he always picks up, Lewis fears that a very big bill indeed is about to fall due. This one Morse will pay.

Fans can warm up for the main Morse event with a one-hour documentary, The Last Morse, airing at 8 p.m. Feb. 22, immediately before Mystery!. The tribute to Oxford's favorite (fictional) son features reminiscences and insights from Thaw and Whately; Morse's creator, novelist Colin Dexter; and longtime "Inspector Morse" executive producers Ted Childs and Rebecca Eaton.