Tales over coffee, part 1

Milan Tomek in 2019, being interviewed by Jon Vanderford, of the popular television program Pure Nebraska, about memories of the old Legion Hall building.
Milan Tomek in 2019, being interviewed by Jon Vanderford, of the popular television program Pure Nebraska, about memories of the old Legion Hall building.

I collect what the late Nebraska folklorist Roger Welsch liked to call “stories and lies,” that is, tall tale. They come out in various situations, over morning coffee, over a campfire, at the kitchen table after a good meal. This week, the stories are from a coffee shop session at the Table Rock drugstore, next to the State Bank of Table Rock. The bank owns the shop and lets folks gather there of…