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*Exquisite Gem on the Plains

Dates:May 10, 2025
Meets:Sa from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM
Location:MCC Sarpy Center Parking Lot
Cost: $179.00

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Enjoy art, architecture and history throughout Concordia, KS! Learn about the fascinating history of the National Orphan Train Museum with your step-on-guide. View the largest carved wall mural in America, which includes 6400 individually hand carved bricks After a lovely luncheon in Concordia we will head to the place often called the “Exquisite Gem on the Plains.” Filled with artifacts and exquisite architectural detail, the Nazareth Convent and Academy is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and includes a must-see gift shop filled with artwork, jewelry, lace, quilts, greeting cards and woodcraft. End your day with a WWII German POW camp tour. Many interesting stories will be told about the camp and German soldiers held there in detention. Cost paid to MCC is the deluxe motor coach transportation, the National Orphan Train Museum tour, the WWII German POW Camp tour, the luncheon (including tax and gratuity) the Wall Mural tour fee, the Concordia museum, and the Nazareth Convent/Academy fee. Bring money, including cash, for shopping and evening meal. Our deluxe motor coach departs promptly at 7:00 a.m. from MCC Sarpy Center; park and meet the bus in the northeast parking lot. Return is at approximately 9:00 p.m. There will be a morning restroom/coffee stop and an evening stop for fast food on the journey back to campus. Sorry, no discount. Refunds will not be allowed within seven days of the trip. The trip leader is Kevin Kowskie.

Notes:

Requirement: moderate walking
The cost paid to MCC is for bus transportation, the National Orphan Train Museum tour, the WWII German POW Camp tour, the luncheon (including tax and gratuity) the Wall Mural tour fee, the surprise stop fee and the Nazareth Convent/Academy fee. Bring money for shopping and evening meal. Our deluxe motor coach departs promptly at 6:30 a.m. from Sarpy Center; (park and meet the bus in the northeast parking lot). Return is at approximately 9:30 p.m. Refunds will not be allowed within 14 days of the trip.
Fee: $179.00
Hours:14.00
CEUs:1.40

MCC Sarpy Center Parking Lot

Kevin Kowskie

Kevin Kowskie is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is passionate about travel and art. His artwork has been displayed at the College of St. Mary’s, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Durham Museum and has been included in a group show at the Joslyn Art Museum. Kowskie’s love for foreign travel and cultural enrichment goes back as far as he can remember. While traveling with his family to Rocky Mountain National Park as a child, he developed a keen desire to expand his journeys to distant lands, and the rest was history. After traveling through much of the United States as he got older, this ambition drew him to expand his travels on an international scale—discovering destinations in Canada, Mexico and a dozen European nations. In his early thirties, Kevin and a friend devoted two weeks every year to backpacking through Europe and visiting different nations and destinations via train. He loves encountering new cultures and meeting people from diverse backgrounds. After someone suggested to him that Omaha would appreciate seminars on European travel, Kowskie followed his passion to become a noncredit instructor on the subject for MCC. Planning, organizing and leading group tours are part of his favorite pastimes. Kowskie is currently a trip leader and coordinator for MCC’s Traveling Classrooms, sharing his experience and knowledge as part of the motivated Continuing Education staff.

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