PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

August 11, 2011

Mead is wine made from honey instead of grapes. A new winery, Mace Meadworks, featuring the buzzing bee’s nectar in its wine is opening on Main Street in Dayton soon.

[Photo caption] Waitsburg resident Gary Hofer and a bronze statue of his great grandfather, Sen. George Norris, in McCook Nebraska. Norris, whose efforts were instrumental in pushing through the Rural Electrification Act 75 years ago, was born 150 years ago himself.

Before William Shakespeare became a well-known playwright, he was an actor with Pembroke’s Men about a decade before the end of the 16th...