Local Author Celebration Series: Dale Gilbert
Please be our guest for our next local author talk featuring Dale Gilbert!
Where: Carriage House at Joslyn Castle & Gardens (3902 Davenport Street, Omaha, NE 68131)
When: Wednesday, December 4 from 6pm-7pm (doors open at 5:30pm)
What: A FREE all ages event.
About the author:
Dale Gilbert was born and raised in Hamburg, Iowa. His first book, Thunder on Bays Mountain, is a compelling story of the pre-and post-Civil War era as seen through the eyes of his great-great-grandfather, Green Berry Gilbert, a Tennessee farmer-turned soldier-turned preacher.
As a writer of historical fiction, Dale weaves historically accurate details about the land, events, and its people with absorbing stories about the experiences of his family. He sheds light on their personal and professional activities, focuses on any ethical and moral issues, while describing what it was like to exist during a specific time frame.
Dale holds degrees of BS and MBA as well as a Graduate Degree in Banking. He is a retired chief financial officer whose forty-two-year career in the business world spanned retailing, telecommunications, and banking.
About the book:
The Gentle Giant of Nebraska is a story about the author’s family in the early history of Johnson County, Nebraska, 1860-1885. The book is narrated through the eyes and experiences of the author’s great-great-grandfather, Ishmael Hickey—known by many newspaper accounts of the time as being “the largest man in the West.”
The reader will follow Ishmael as he recounts his early life in Illinois, including a life-changing event at age seven, the courtship of his future wife, Elizabeth, the family’s involvement in circus life, their trek to Nebraska Territory, and their resilience in the face of the devastating floods of 1883.
