Kylie Kinley completes CASE training

Kylie Kinley brings the loves of her life, agriculture and English, with her teaching position at Lawrence-Nelson High School. The second-year instuctor is the only Nebraska teacher certified in both english and agriculture. She teaches ag ed, English and speech to middle and high school students. She serves as the FFA chapter co-advisor.

Kinley graduated from Blue Hill High School. She grew up on a farm with row crops and a calf-cow operation. She attended Kansas satte University where she majored in journalism.

Prior to joining the faculty at Lawrence-Nelson, Kinley served as an assistant editior at nebraska History magazine, a publication from the Nebraska Historical Society. She was an academic advisor at the A. Q. Miller School of Journalsim and Mass Communication at KSU.

Kinley was the extension educator at the Nuckolls County ectension office for three years prior to accepting her post at Lawrence-Nelson. Kinley recently completed a food sciences course which she will incorporate into her ag ed classes.

She is a member of the Nuckolls County Fair Board.

Kinley resides in the Nora community with her Welsh Corgi.

Kinley is also an accomplished author. She is the co-author, along with Vince Goeres, of "wings Over Nebraska: Historic Aviation Photos." Kinley wrote a fantasy novel, "Betwixt," which was published but is now out of print.She has also published articles in Nebraska History icluding 'Louise Vinciquerra- Nebraska's Bootlegger Queen."

Vinciquerra acquired her notoriety when the press emblzoned her name in headlines froclaiming her as the queen of Nebraska boorlegger. while she was not the only female in nebraska to