2024 The Great Commoner Award
TO RECOGNIZE OUTSTANDING EFFORT IN PRESERVATION EDUCATION
Jim McKee
Lincoln Historian
Previous Great Commoner award winners
2023: Frank E. Ordia
2020: Sharon Kennedy
2019: H. Keith Sawyers
2018: Ed Zimmer, Contributions to “Place Makers of Nebraska: The Architects’ Website”
2017: Woodsshire Home Association
2016: Elizabeth Chase
2015: Historic Haymarket Inc., New, Improved Haymarket Walking Tour Guidebook
2014: BVH Architects, Nebraska State Capitol: Restoring a Landmark book
2013: Hildegard Center for the Arts and Lincoln High School, “Hearing from Heroes” Theatrical Project at Wyuka Cemetery
2012: Bob Puschendorf
2011: Dennis Buckley
2010: Jim Dyck
2009: Mary Jane Nielsen
2008: Kay Logan Peters
2007: Jon Roth
2006: Dick Rumbolz
2005: Doug Beals
2004: Ruth Greene Folley & Abigail Davis, Oral History Project
2002: Roxanne Smith, State Capitol Tours
2001: Lori Maass Vidlak, “Heart of Lincoln”
2000: Dale L. Gibbs, FAIA
1999: Kathy Colwell, Lincoln African American Landmarks
1998: Eileen Bergt & Gordon Scholz
1997: Near South Neighborhood Tour of Homes
1996: Barbara Sommer, Fairview Interpretation
1995: James L. McKee
1994: Ed Zimmer
1993: Near South Walking Tour Books, V. 1 & 2