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Red Cloud Opera House
… known as the Opera House. Mr. Mizer’s grocery business occupied the north store on the ground level and Mr. Morhart and … south half of the first floor. The stage and auditorium occupied the second story. Adam and his wife, Mary, had three … orchestra and a painstaking conductor, who was also the pianist. What good luck for a country child to hear those …
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Serena's Album
… family came to Nebraska between 1880 and 1885; her father farmed near Bostwick in Nuckolls County. After attending … her album. Serena White lived her entire life in the area, never marrying. She died in 1924. Cather scholar Kari … settlement known as “Elora” — Mrs. Keifer gives it as her home — was essentially a post office in search of a town, …
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The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams
… Image The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams The story behind the play, Not Too Far Distant … of searchable stories and digitized documents. The site includes testimony, geographical and primary historical resources, including the collection of Staff Sergeant Clarence O. Williams …
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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" From The Home Monthly August 9, 2024 Today is National Book Lovers … sweet vision of them has blessed and refreshed many a hard place in life and will linger with them until they go down …
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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
… George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic portrait … 1921. Rinehart-Marsden Studios. Today Willa Cather is one of the most important American novelists of the first … matriculation requirements.) Having just arrived from a small town, she took full advantage of the capital's …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… or her state of the union. Their essays, short but not at all sweet, were collected and published in two volumes, in … patriots who implant into the foreign minds a distaste for all they have brought of value from their own country. ‘The … Cycle.” Miss Cather’s article doesn’t ‘put Nebraska on the map” as Babbit would glibly phrase it. It would be literary …
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The Art Connection
… representational. As she does not currently have a dark room, she instead spends her time painting, drawing, and …
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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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