The boxes of Huggies and Pampers are piled high next to Sam Dov’s barber chair. He jokes that whenever a new batch arrives, stacking them feels like playing Jenga.

Since mid-May, Dov, who works at Faded Barbershop in north Lincoln, has been swapping haircuts for donations of diapers and baby wipes. The process is simple: Bring in $40 worth before the end of June and get two haircuts in exchange. Dov said the goal is to collect $10,000 worth — or about 250 donations. He estimates that, as of mid-June, he’d collected about 50 boxes.

Sitting on a scorching sidewalk in downtown Winnebago, 7-year-old Tyler Free-LaMere's little hands danced across the black-and-white keys of her miniature keyboard, bringing the symphonies in her head into the world for people shuffling by. 

Few on the reservation at the time realized little Tyler was laying the foundation for a groundbreaking future.

High above an Illinois cornfield, the plane with the “O” on its tail sliced through the cloudy blue sky. 

Cullen “Bill” Leitner steered the Cessna 152 and watched the timer. Will Skradski surveyed the landscape below for secret checkpoints, referencing a paper map to track their position. 

The duo was tasked with navigating a 125-mile route, unknown to them until shortly before takeoff, without the GPS tools pilots have come to rely on. Every second off schedule and every extra drop of fuel used counted against them.