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Jeff Barnes, Humanities Nebraska Speaker, presented “The ‘Mad’ Queen of the Prairie” at the Atkinson Public Library to a wonderful crowd of seventy-seven children and adults. Barnes, who has spoken at the library many times, has published multiple books on the history of Nebraska, which are all available for checkout at the library.