Paul Hammel: Mayhew Cabin, role in Underground Railroad is important history to tell

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

LINCOLN — When I was a kid, our grade school class was one of many that got to visit John Brown’s Cave in Nebraska City.

Paul Hammel: Mayhew Cabin, role in Underground Railroad is important history to tell

Columnist: "Some brave settlers in Nebraska City and Falls City helped 'freedom seekers' escape enslavement during the late 1850s and into the Civil War."