HIGHLIGHT: NEBRASKA
NEBRASKA Omaha: Carter Frey is the boy in new tourism ads who provides the analogy to describe Nebraska: that odd kid who didn’t say much in school, slightly peculiar maybe. But when you took the time to get to know him, turned out he was pretty interesting. Carter, the 9-year-old towhead looking at the camera through oversized glasses, likes to eat Brussels sprouts, rather than that boring mac and cheese so many kids live on. “See? Odd, peculiar,” his mom says. It doesn’t bother him to be referenced in the tourism ad as an odd kid. That’s who he is, he confirms. And those oversized glasses he wears? Not just a prop.