Locke is a Louisville businessman who self-published his first book in 2009. He became the second writer this year to sell one million books on Amazon.com, through the company's Kindle Direct Publishing service.
The second commemorative quarter-dollar coin released in 2006 honors Nebraska, and is the 37th coin in the United States Mint's 50 State Quarters Â® Program. Nebraska, nicknamed the Cornhusker State, was admitted into the Union on March 1, 1867, becoming our Nation's 37th state.
Fairbury is possibly the only Nebraska high school with nationally-syndicated cartoon character as a mascot â itâs actually âJeffâ from the early 20th-century comic strip, âMutt and Jeff.â Heâs the shorter of the two harebrained adventurers, and heâs displayed prominently on Fairburyâs brand-new football stadium.