The Kearney Arch museum in rural Nebraska has never been able to convince enough motorists to pull over to see its historical artifacts and volunteer re-enactors who chronicle how Americans bravely set out in wagons in the mid-1800s to settle the country’s prairie land.
But the storyline of the museum’s own financial struggle might not be so dramatic if the attraction—a boxy structure meant to look like a covered bridge and painted with colors of the Nebraska sunset—wasn’t hoisted above Interstate 80.
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