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Red Cloud Opera House

… Image Red Cloud Opera House "When I go about among little Nebraska towns, the thing I miss most is the Opera House."  —Willa Cather, Personal Interview Built in …
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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 … was an American humorist whose popular Samantha Allen novels were presented as if written by the heroine’s foolish … of church music. Hattie’s favorite amusement, “Jack Stories,” come from Appalachian oral tradition, tales of a …
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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 The NWCC Bookstore features every book written by Willa Cather or about Willa Cather—and a wide selection of other … toward him at once. He has the first essential elements of literary taste. After the children have read these two …
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The Potter Family

… Potter The last of the week S. N. Potter received the sad news of the death of his brother Charles R. Potter, who had …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through each volume’s extensive apparatus, … until early 1901, when she accepted a high school teaching position in Pittsburgh, later moving across the …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… Nebraska’s decision to make it illegal to teach foreign language to students under the eighth grade: “Miss Cather … material she still feels herself flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone. Her girlhood in south central Nebraska, where she …
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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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