Roger Welsch is a senior correspondent

Correspondent

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 on the CBS News Sunday Morning

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program, and was featured in a segment called "Postcards from Nebraska". An author, humorist and folklorist, Welsch was born in Lincoln, Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebraska

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, and today lives outside of Dannebrog, Nebraska

Dannebrog, Nebraska

Dannebrog is a village in Howard County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Grand Island, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 352 at the 2000 census...

. Welsch was the 2005 winner of the Henry Fonda Award, from the State of Nebraska Travel and Tourism Division.

Articles

Welsch has been published in a variety of publications, including Esquire

Esquire (magazine)

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, Natural History

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, Successful Farming, and elsewhere.

Recordings

• The Prairie: Pistol to Plow. Lincoln, NE: Media Productions, 1986.
• Omaha Indian Music. (liner notes) American Folklife Center, 1985.
• Sweet Nebraska Land. Folkways Records
  Folkways Records
  Folkways Records was a record label founded by Moses Asch that documented folk, world, and children's music. It was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution in 1987, and is now part of Smithsonian Folkways.-History:...
  
  , 1965.

Awards

• "Henry Fonda Award", Nebraska Travel and Tourism Division, 2005.
• "Man of the Year In Service to Nebraska Agriculture", 1996.
• "Mari Sandoz Award" from the Nebraska Library Association.
• "President's Award for creative young faculty", Nebraska Wesleyan University
  Nebraska Wesleyan University
  Nebraska Wesleyan University is a private, coeducational university located in Lincoln, Nebraska. It was founded in 1887 by Nebraska Methodists. As of 2007, it has 1,600 full-time students and 300 faculty and staff. The school teaches in the tradition of a liberal arts college education....
  
  , 1967.]]