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The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams

… inspiration for her play, Not Too Far Distant, from the   Nebraska Stories of Humanity : Holocaust Survivors & WWII … The collection aims to centralize access to the history of Nebraska Holocaust survivors and WWII liberators of Nazi … O. “Willie” or “C.O.” Williams grew up in Crescent, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa. He married Gretchen …
Posted: 10/15/2024
Last Updated: 10/22/2024

"Books Old and New"

… Image The NWCC Bookstore features every book written by Willa Cather or about Willa Cather—and a wide selection of other books, too. …
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

… of the leading figures of American literary Modernism has only increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa … the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

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

… Nation “Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years  Cather's essay for the Nation still resonates …
Posted: 09/05/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

The Art Connection

… Cloud Opera House is pleased to welcome The Art Connection show, created by a group of artists located in South Central … Connie McHenry View the digital gallery here! Walt Thomas  began his photographic career when, as art director of … of Nebraska Art Clubs (ANAC) and has a watercolor, "Winter Cuttings," in the permanent collection at the Museum …
Posted: 01/06/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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 …
Posted: 03/24/2022
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

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