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Red Cloud Opera House
… Opera House features a full performance schedule and is home to the Willa Cather Foundation offices, art gallery and … successful man in Hastings and traveled extensively, but he never outgrew his love for Red Cloud, Nebraska. He and his … most necessary to us, there was always the question of how far we could prevail upon our parents. Would they let us go …
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Serena's Album
… entitled Mental Portraits , probably as a 16th birthday gift. These books, also known as autograph albums or … stores rather than bookstores, and widely given as gifts to women and girls. Serena’s album has long been an … 19th century. Right Rolla reveals more of his interest in card-playing. “Never looking at the card in the bottom of …
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The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams
… Website. The collection aims to centralize access to the history of Nebraska Holocaust survivors and WWII liberators … day after the liberation of Dachau, Williams wrote his wife about his details of the concentration camp as they … I will never forget as long as I live. I had read a lot about concentration camps and the brutal treatment given the …
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"Books Old and New"
… by Willa Cather or about Willa Cather—and a wide selection of other books, too. Image Some children's books in the Willa Cather Childhood Home Image Willa Cather in Pittsburgh "Books Old … the earth over again, we turn instinctively to our very old friends, those that have been tested and tried." Books Old …
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The Potter Family
… from New York to Nebraska to live with and work for area farmers. Charles R. Potter (1840–1931) was born in the … R. Potter, was 21 when they were married, having left his home in Owego, N.Y. the year before to come to Illinois where he had relatives. He and his father never agreed very well, so he left home and came west, as …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Image George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic … publish there; it serialized her first novel, Alexander's Bridge , in 1912. Once she had completed her second novel …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years Cather's essay for the Nation still resonates September 5, … than I do, are satisfied with my presentation of it.” [Willa Cather Papers, 1899-1949, in the Clifton Waller … Nebraska. If we are to judge from her previously published material she still feels herself flesh of our flesh, bone of …
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The Art Connection
… the good things in the past and her connection with the farm land. Gwen Lewis was born in Red Cloud, Nebraska, and … on the family farm in central Nebraska, and her roots have never strayed very far. Close family and community ties have … in pastels, but her most recent work features layers of homemade paper and acrylic to create mixed media …
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Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing
… and designer Rachelle Hruska MacPherson’s grandparents’ home in Ceresco, Nebraska as well as on the Hruska Family Farm, in Ulysses, Nebraska. Recently, we asked Rachelle more … Plains, and Red Cloud, that you share with people who’ve never been here before? The more I travel, the more I come …
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