Phil Whitmarsh starts a lot of conversations with an offbeat question: Have you ever played a 500-year-old guitar? Eventually, he’ll hand you Mary Kate. The instrument resembles a Fender Telecaster, the six-string synonymous with Americana twang and favored by artists like Bruce Springsteen and Keith Richards. Mary Kate looks and plays like a Telecaster, but […]
Author Archives: Michael Wunder
Michael Wunder, raised in Omaha and now residing in Lincoln, studied journalism at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and currently serves as Nebraska Community Foundation’s community storyteller. In the last 10-plus years he has worked in copywriting, technical writing and journalism – including at weekly newspapers in rural Lancaster County. Outside of writing, he enjoys spending time outdoors, playing music and reading way too much Wikipedia.
