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In addition to the nickname 'Captain Nebraska,' Welsch also went by the names afforded him by indigenous tribes: Tenugahai 'Bull Buffalo Chief' by the Omaha Tribe, Panitaka 'White Wolfhite Pawnee' by the Pawnee Tribe, and Heyoka ta Pejuta 'His Medicine is Contrary' by the Oglala Sioux. He also worked to reform the Nebraska State Historical Society after they refused to repatriate human remains of native peoples to the Pawnee Nation. Welsch wrote dozens of books, penned newspaper columns, and proudly admitted to having founded the National Liars Hall of Fame, claiming nearly two million visitors a year in tiny Dannebrog.

His slogan: 'If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em,' He won. Not marijuana, weeds – edible wild plants that were being sprayed with pesticides. Welsch's segments developed after Charles Kuralt featured him in an 'On the Road' segment about the Nebraskan's 1970s campaign for the Lancaster County Weed Control Authority, running on a 'pro-weed' platform.

| Keith Philpott/Getty ImagesĪ humorist, storyteller and activist for Native Americans, Roger Welsch (November 6, 1936-September 30, 2022) was a longtime contributor to 'CBS Sunday Morning' with his witty 'Postcard from Nebraska' segments in the 1980s and '90s.Ĭlad in his familiar overalls, Welsch told stories from his beloved state, including his hometown of Dannebrog, so small, he noted, the town square only has three sides. Humorist Roger Welsch with a stuffed Jackalope (a jack rabbit with deer antlers glued to its head). Why leave hearts laying on the floor for me? … He broke my heart lots of time, but that would have broke the kids' hearts, wouldn't it?'Īnd she got some evocative songs out of it, like the #1 country hit 'Fist City':Ĭome on and tell me what you told my friends She stayed, she said, because she loved him: 'I didn't need him, but he was my kids' daddy. But as she told '48 Hours' in 2002, the two were regular sparring partners: 'I've never written a song that my husband wasn't in – every song I wrote – but he didn't know which line he was in.' Their marriage lasted 48 years, until Doo's death in 1996. But as she spent nights on the road in her tour bus, Doo stayed home drinking, womanizing, and hiring housekeepers to raise their now-six children. 'I'd stand them up in a row: Betty, Jack, Ernest, and Cissie, 'Stand right there and tell mommy what you think of her singing.' 'Oh, you sound pretty, mommy.''ĭoo arranged for Loretta to record her song 'Honky Tonk Girl,' and they hit the road to promote it. Lynn taught herself to play, and began writing her own songs. That's where Doo found out I could sing,' she said. Lynn would have four children by the time she was 18. When she was just 13, Loretta met 21-year-old Oliver Lynn, known as Doo. And if I was trying to be somebody else, I'd have never made it, either,' she said. 'It's whatever I was going through at the time, and whatever I was thinking about at the time,' Lynn told 'Sunday Morning' in 2010.Īnd even as she rose to become a legend of American music – a three-time Grammy-winner, with 30 Top 10 country albums, and the first woman to win the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year Award, in 1972 – she never forgot her roots, as the second of eight children of a coal miner in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. The country legend sang about a life of hardship, poverty, and her husband's infidelity – stories like 'I'm a Honky Tonk Girl,' 'Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind),' 'You Ain't Woman Enough,' 'What Makes Me Tick,' and 'Coal Miner's Daughter,' whose title became the name of her bestselling 1976 autobiography. If you want to know the story of Loretta Lynn (April 14, 1932-October 4, 2022), listen to her songs. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery. Aaron/Redferns via Getty ImagesĪ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan.

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