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Red Cloud Opera House

… Image Red Cloud Opera House "When I go about among little Nebraska towns, the thing I miss most is the Opera House."  —Willa Cather, Personal Interview Built in …
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Serena's Album

… pasts and the trajectories of their lives, becomes also a document of historical sweep and almost painful immediacy. … “filled out in earnest, or in jest,” but this separate document has been lost. The list of questions posed in … of her family grow rare and somewhat puzzling. In separate documents, Celinda Coffeen and her husband Henry are each …
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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"

… 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

… this wagon as she was a fine horsewoman and could always manage a horse or team better than my father who had never …
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Willa Cather Biography

… P. Stout’s Cather Among the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative … between sides multiple times). The Cathers, who had a sheep farm, were sympathetic to the Union and some of Cather's … removed to this place which seems otherworldly: "I had never before looked up at the sky where there was not a …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… Nebraska’s decision to make it illegal to teach foreign language to students under the eighth grade: “Miss Cather … material she still feels herself flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone. Her girlhood in south central Nebraska, where she …
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The Art Connection

… raise cattle and crops south of Red Cloud, near the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, and many of her paintings reflect her love of that … Cather's Red Cloud Opera House is made possible with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska …
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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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