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Red Cloud Opera House

… on opening and closing nights?" "How good some of those old traveling companies were, and how honestly they did … What good luck for a country child to hear those tuneful old operas sung by people who were doing their best:  The … Chimes of Normandy, Martha, The Mikado .  Nothing takes hold of a child like living people." "But I am sorry that the …
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Serena's Album

… “Bananas,” reflects the strain of adolescent humor running through the album. Right Lillian Shepard’s husband Harry … with Modern Improvements.” Right If privileged to make a journey, Mrs. Merriam would choose California. She … Arden.” Notice that her taste in composers runs to the literary. Right In the years after Aunt Cinnie signed …
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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"

… 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 …
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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

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a special issue of  Modern Fiction Studies  on Cather's work. This critical interest in Cather …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… editing a modern collection of state contributions: “Eighty-one years ago, on April 19, 1922, The Nation launched a … under the eighth grade: “Miss Cather told her audience that one of the things which retarded art in America was the … with Nebraska that will make her always distinctly “one of ours.” It is fortunate that Nebraska has Willa Cather, the …
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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

… 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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