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Red Cloud Opera House

… Cather and her friends eagerly anticipated the arrival of traveling productions such as  The Bohemian Girl  and  The … Morhart. Frank became a successful man in Hastings and traveled extensively, but he never outgrew his love for Red … towns, the thing I miss most is the Opera House. A traveling stock company settled down at the local hotel and …
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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

… 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"

… Home Image Willa Cather in Pittsburgh "Books Old and New" From The Home Monthly August 9, 2024   Today is … than meat and flour."  —Willa Cather, "Old Books and New," The Home Monthly , May 1897 Here is a complete reprint … those that have been tested and tried." Books Old and New. Helen Delay "My book and heart shall never part." —New …
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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

… increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen … periodical that reaches a broad audience beyond academy, is published three times a year by the National Willa … It would be followed in 1918 with the more personal  My Ántonia  where the narrative proper begins with the very …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… on Vermont in the Nation ,— the only interesting one so far in that dull and deadly series , the only one that … pastry shops of Prague or Vienna. The American lard pie never corrupted the Czech…” Her essay ends: "The population … grew from girlhood to maturity in Nebraska. Although her home is now in that mecca for the literary artisan, New …
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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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