Sad standoff, and now an expensive repair estimate, deters the telling of an important history

LINCOLN – As a kid, our grade school class was one of many that got to visit John Brown’s Cave in Nebraska City.There was a cool log cabin, the Mayhew Cabin, hewn from local cottonwoods before Nebraska became a state.There was this kinda spooky, underground “cave” -- a hand-made tunnel to a nearby ravine that was billed as a hiding spot for slaves escaping bondage in nearb...