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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 …
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 other … outside, covering up all the landscape, healing up the world's old scars and making the earth over again, we turn …
Posted: 08/09/2024
Last Updated: 08/09/2024

The Potter Family

… the rafters to hold in what heat we could get. With all I remember, it was rather an uncomfortable winter.   Red Cloud … from the records of Van Meter post of the G.A.R. the last member and past commander. “Born March 3, 1839 in New York … alive. He had yielded to the infirmities of old age. He had become blind and had lost his vitality in other respects. It …
Posted: 08/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/27/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… is one of the most important American novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. Seen as a regional … of American literary Modernism has only increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition … Sebastian in  Lucy Gayheart , Cather was herself "nearing fifty" (78) and after her own struggle with  One of Ours …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

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

… plains, under its clear skies, in contact with the hardy pioneers who subdued its frontiers. And her voice, at once … the passing of those splendid men and women, the sturdy pioneers who brought our fruitful acres under subjection and … the hope that something went into the ground with those pioneers that will one day come out again. Something that …
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 … husband raise cattle and crops south of Red Cloud, near the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, and many of her paintings reflect …
Posted: 01/06/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing

… Image Image Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing March 27, 2022 As part of their “Nebraskaland” collection of hand-embroidered … about Willa Cather through school-assigned readings of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia . But, it wasn’t until later, as a …
Posted: 03/24/2022
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

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