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Red Cloud Opera House

… 1953. Then it was leased to Coast to Coast Hardware until 2001, when renovation work began on this grand historic … Jubilee edition of the  Omaha World-Herald  on October 27, 1929. It was later re-published in the  Red Cloud Chief : …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 09/16/2026

Serena's Album

… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather … theorizes that Serena came to Red Cloud to continue her studies with J. F. Curran, the very popular Superior High … photographer, of German parentage. He appears in an 1899 volume entitled Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams

… of Humanity : Holocaust Survivors & WWII Veterans, Network Portal & Educational Website.  The collection aims to …
Posted: 10/15/2024
Last Updated: 10/22/2024

"Books Old and New"

… Home Image Willa Cather in Pittsburgh "Books Old and New" From The Home Monthly August 9, 2024   Today is … than meat and flour."  —Willa Cather, "Old Books and New," The Home Monthly , May 1897 Here is a complete reprint … those that have been tested and tried." Books Old and New. Helen Delay "My book and heart shall never part." —New …
Posted: 08/09/2024
Last Updated: 08/09/2024

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 …
Posted: 08/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/27/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… published which have changed just how Cather is seen and understood. Two of the most prominent recent volumes are … a countryside and a people. That relationship, he knew, cannot be gone after and found; it must be long and deliberate, … The Song of the Lark  (150)—the Willa Cather who was about forty years of age was ready to do what was needed to …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… on Vermont in the Nation ,— the only interesting one so far in that dull and deadly series , the only one that … pastry shops of Prague or Vienna. The American lard pie never corrupted the Czech…” Her essay ends: "The population … grew from girlhood to maturity in Nebraska. Although her home is now in that mecca for the literary artisan, New …
Posted: 09/05/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

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 …
Posted: 01/06/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing

… Image Image Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing March 27, 2022 As … outside the publishing world has as much enthusiasm for our great authors as we do,” added Suzanne Herz, publisher of … collection would be a perfect fit. What is it about the Great Plains, and Red Cloud, that you share with people …
Posted: 03/24/2022
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

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