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Red Cloud Opera House

… Cather Foundation offices, art gallery and bookstore.  Upcoming events About the Morhart & Fulton Building In 1885, Red …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 09/16/2026

Serena's Album

… entitled Mental Portraits , probably as a 16th birthday gift. These books, also known as autograph albums or … stores rather than bookstores, and widely given as gifts to women and girls. Serena’s album has long been an … 19th century. Right Rolla reveals more of his interest in card-playing. “Never looking at the card in the bottom of …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams

… from letters, to lectures, to this gallery. He is now “over the Rainbow.” His joy in this exhibit today would be inexpressible. He would feel … the end is now in sight and not too far distant… Had a new experience today that I will never forget as long as I …
Posted: 10/15/2024
Last Updated: 10/22/2024

"Books Old and New"

… Image Some children's books in the Willa Cather Childhood Home Image Willa Cather in Pittsburgh "Books Old and New" … Books Old and New. Helen Delay "My book and heart shall never part." —New England Primer [The editor of this … us who have read over and over the books we possess and are far from circulating libraries often drop out of the way of …
Posted: 08/09/2024
Last Updated: 08/09/2024

The Potter Family

… Street business district. Later J.Q. and Jacob opened the first grist mill west of Beatrice after they constructed, … War was on now and my father volunteered and spent three years in the service until the close of the war. He was … Orleans; N. F. Potter, Alma; twenty-six grandchildren, fifty great grandchildren.” (By Attorney Jas. S. Gilham) …
Posted: 08/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/27/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… was as good as his word, since Cather's second book,  The Troll Garden , a collection of stories, appeared from McClure, … containing both new stories and others revised from  The Troll Garden , in 1920. It was followed by  One of Ours , a …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

“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 …
Posted: 09/05/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

The Art Connection

… Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Art Gallery Friday, Feb 5, 2021 | 12am - Wednesday, Apr 14, 2021 … The Red Cloud Opera House is pleased to welcome The Art Connection show, created by a group of artists located in …
Posted: 01/06/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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

… Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing March 27, 2022 As part of their … Lingua Franca announced the release of their “Willa Cather Collection” on International Women’s Day, March 8. … prose, while conjuring the mystic beauty of Nebraska’s prairies with hand-stitched embroidery and handmade …
Posted: 03/24/2022
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

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