Buffalo Commons 2016

Storyteller and singer-sognwriter Andy Offutt Irwin delivers a story Friday night at the Bieroc Cafe. (Bruce Crosby/McCook Gazette)

The first woman and only third person named Nebraska State Poet, Twyla Hansen reads one of her poems Friday at the Bieroc Cafe. (Bruce Crosby/McCook Gazette)

The Steel Wheels, from left, Brian Dickel, Trent Wagler, Jay Lapp and Eric Brubaker perform Friday at the Bieroc Cafe as part of the 20th annual Buffalo Commons Festival. (Bruce Crosby/McCook Gazette)

Lori Halfhide of Concordia, Kansas, left, instructs Lynda Baumbach of Indianola on the use of dowsing rods Friday morning, during a Buffalo Commons Storytelling Festival tour of St. Mary's Assumption Cemetery northwest of Herndon. Halfhide is a researcher and genealogist passionate about cemeteries and the symbolism found within. She said that dowsing can be used to find unmarked graves; the motion of the rods held straight up and down over a grave will indicate male or female, adult, adolescent or child. Iron crosses, like those that abound in St. Mary's cemetery, were typical in prairie cemeteries in the late 1800s and early 1900s, especially in communities of German or Swedish heritage. (Connie Jo Discoe/McCook Gazette)

Singer, songwriter and all-around good guy Andy Offutt Irwin plays to a crowd of more than 60 during the Peanut Butter Theatre at the McCook City Library Saturday morning as part of the 20th annual Buffalo Commons Storytelling and Music Festival. (Bruce Baker/McCook Gazette)

Storyteller Sharon Bohling, far right, enthusiastically reads a tall tale about a day in the life of a carrot to a group of local youth during the KidsFest "Peanut Butter Theatre" at the McCook City Library Saturday afternoon. Participants intently listened to a story at each of the five stations and received a corresponding contribution to their sack lunch afterwards. (Bruce Baker/McCook Gazette)