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Serena's Album

… settlement known as “Elora” — Mrs. Keifer gives it as her home — was essentially a post office in search of a town, … we see the sense in her chief ambition in life: “A Happy Home with Modern Improvements.” Right If privileged to make … most desire “The Isle of Man.” This reference to an actual place (following Lillian Shepard’s lead) may also be a bit …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams

… his grounds is a very large stream that flows over the rocks and the current is very swift. How any one could sit …
Posted: 10/15/2024
Last Updated: 10/22/2024

"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 …
Posted: 08/09/2024
Last Updated: 08/09/2024

The Potter Family

… Jennie McDougal (1843–1923), in 1860. He served in Company F of the 19th Iowa Volunteers; after being wounded, he … them. Often he would build a house for themselves and just get moved in when he would sell it and then build another, thus keeping them on the move every few months. His …
Posted: 08/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/27/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… critical monographs have been published which have changed just how Cather is seen and understood. Two of the most … among close readers of Cather show no sign of abating any time soon. Beyond such publication, seminars and … a countryside and a people. That relationship, he knew, cannot be gone after and found; it must be long and deliberate, …
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

… 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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