Search Results
8 results found
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 … theorizes that Serena came to Red Cloud to continue her studies with J. F. Curran, the very popular Superior High … photographer, of German parentage. He appears in an 1899 volume entitled Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive …
Posted:
Last Updated:
The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams
… Nebraska classrooms; from letters, to lectures, to this gallery. He is now “over the Rainbow.” His joy in this …
Posted:
Last Updated:
"Books Old and New"
… by Willa Cather or about Willa Cather—and a wide selection of other books, too. Image Some children's books in the Willa Cather Childhood Home Image Willa Cather in Pittsburgh "Books Old … the earth over again, we turn instinctively to our very old friends, those that have been tested and tried." Books Old …
Posted:
Last Updated:
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 …
Posted:
Last Updated:
Willa Cather Biography
… Sinclair Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … other places found there too: the desert southwest of The Song of the Lark , The Professor's House , and Death Comes for the …
Posted:
Last Updated:
“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:
Last Updated:
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:
Last Updated:
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:
Last Updated: