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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 …
Posted: 10/15/2024
Last Updated: 10/22/2024

"Books Old and New"

… Image The NWCC Bookstore features every book written by Willa Cather or about Willa Cather—and a wide selection of … in the Willa Cather Childhood Home Image Willa Cather in Pittsburgh "Books Old and New" From The Home Monthly August … shone well before she was famous for her novels and short stories. [For more about Cather's editorship at The Home …
Posted: 08/09/2024
Last Updated: 08/09/2024

The Potter Family

… winter.   Red Cloud Mills Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, December 6, 1878 THE RED CLOUD MILLS, owned and operated by … to run it is light, and It is kept constantly in operation, night and day, for nine months in the year. All tho latest …
Posted: 08/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/27/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen in print) … publish there; it serialized her first novel,  Alexander's Bridge , in 1912. Once she had completed her second novel …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years  Cather's essay for the Nation still resonates September 5, … meditations, art and anthropology, reportage and polemic.” Cather wrote to her editor Alfred A. Knopf on August 25, … the importance of a place and its people—the traditions and prairie landscape of the Great Plains that Cather loved and …
Posted: 09/05/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

The Art Connection

… Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Art Gallery Friday, Feb 5, 2021 | 12am - Wednesday, Apr 14, 2021 … raise cattle and crops south of Red Cloud, near the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, and many of her paintings reflect … and light in her art.  Sally Jurgensmier was raised on the family farm in central Nebraska, and her roots have never …
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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