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Serena's Album

… for Addie’s favorite composer “Hattie Baker.” Right Addie greatly admires big feet in women and claims as her motto … acquainted with him, then you’ll know.” She quotes from the American poet and satirist John Godfrey Saxe’s “Early … flamboyant technique and extensive American tour in the 1850s helped awaken a taste for classical music among popular …
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The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams

… of searchable stories and digitized documents. The site includes testimony, geographical and primary historical … for it. The camp covered an area of probably ten square blocks and much of it was surrounded by high cement walls … things they did and it certainly gives one a different viewpoint toward the German people. This is all probably boring …
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"Books Old and New"

… Image Some children's books in the Willa Cather Childhood Home Image Willa Cather in Pittsburgh "Books Old and New" … Books Old and New. Helen Delay "My book and heart shall never part." —New England Primer [The editor of this … us who have read over and over the books we possess and are far from circulating libraries often drop out of the way of …
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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

… by singularities. When Philip Roth died in 2018, New Yorker editor David Remnick held that “he was in competition … an explosion, a pest" (Politics 7), listened to these stories and stockpiled the details, not knowing the use she …
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“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 …
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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

… with the National Willa Cather Center and Penguin Random House. Twenty percent of proceeds from the sale of items in … in Ulysses, Nebraska. Recently, we asked Rachelle more about her latest collection. How did you discover Willa … you to give back to nonprofits like the Willa Cather Foundation? I love that Lingua Franca has been able to give …
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