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Serena's Album

… Serena's Album Loading Serena's Album Rediscovering Serena’s Album In … Jane Dressler, is the owner of Serena’s album. 2-3 Preface The publisher encourages users to “enliven each … This, too, may have been meant seriously; early aviation pioneers such as John Joseph Montgomery made headlines …
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The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams

… of Clarence O. Williams The story behind the play, Not Too Far Distant October 15, 2024 Playwright Becky Boesen gleaned … Division. According to his son Thomas, “for reasons he never shared, he took a camera with him, and produced the … carefully catalogued and documented album after returning home, ultimately settling in Lincoln, Nebraska.” He …
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"Books Old and New"

… Childhood Home Image Willa Cather in Pittsburgh "Books Old and New" From The Home Monthly August 9, 2024   Today is … They are cheaper than meat and flour."  —Willa Cather, "Old Books and New," The Home Monthly , May 1897 Here is a … covering up all the landscape, healing up the world's old scars and making the earth over again, we turn …
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The Potter Family

… Street business district. Later J.Q. and Jacob opened the first grist mill west of Beatrice after they constructed, … War was on now and my father volunteered and spent three years in the service until the close of the war. He was … Orleans; N. F. Potter, Alma; twenty-six grandchildren, fifty great grandchildren.” (By Attorney Jas. S. Gilham) …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny enclave of French culture that was Quebec City at the end of the seventeenth … an important first step for Cather—she wrote much of the material it published herself, fiction, nonfiction, and …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… gasping at the daring but simple exposition she gave the meaning of art.” ‘No Nebraska child now growing up will ever … graveyards of my own county and see on the headstones the names of fine old men I used to know: ‘Eric Ericson, born …
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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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