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Serena's Album
… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather … theorizes that Serena came to Red Cloud to continue her studies with J. F. Curran, the very popular Superior High … photographer, of German parentage. He appears in an 1899 volume entitled Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive …
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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 …
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"Books Old and New"
… fledgling magazine while living in Pittsburgh. When she was hired as the magazine's first editor, she was only 22! … * * * Probably no author is more popular with American girls than Edna Lyall. Her books, like Miss Muloch's , are … The habit of reading formed in childhood will follow the girls and boys all through this trying life, and will give …
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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
… southwest of The Song of the Lark , The Professor's House , and Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny … to and from the depot south of town. The Red Cloud Opera House , now restored and the offices and performance … Each delivered a graduation speech on the stage of the Opera House. Cather's—published in the Red Cloud Chief—was …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… plains, under its clear skies, in contact with the hardy pioneers who subdued its frontiers. And her voice, at once … the passing of those splendid men and women, the sturdy pioneers who brought our fruitful acres under subjection and … the hope that something went into the ground with those pioneers that will one day come out again. Something that …
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The Art Connection
… 2021 | 12am - Wednesday, Apr 14, 2021 | 12am The Red Cloud Opera House is pleased to welcome The Art Connection show, created … them. Programming at the National Willa Cather's Red Cloud Opera House is made possible with the support of the …
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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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