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The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams
… the timber line there is beautiful blue grass and many wild flowers in bloom. At the floor of the mountains entering his … place and plan such wars, I can’t figure out… Image Wildflowers from Hitler's estate, pressed in a letter P.S. I am … I picked on Hitler's estate. Two violets and one yellow flower, I don't know what it is.” For more about the …
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"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 … toward him at once. He has the first essential elements of literary taste. After the children have read these two …
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The Potter Family
Image Charles R. Potter Image Charles and Jennie McDougal Potter The Potter Family Five Potter brothers came to Red Cloud to settle the county. John Quincy Potter (1835–1923) came to Red Cloud in 1873 and along with his brother Jacob, began operating the …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Image George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic … periodical that reaches a broad audience beyond academy, is published three times a year by the National Willa … her novels of prairie pioneering, O Pioneers! and My Á ntonia , but there are a succession of other places found …
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“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, … than I do, are satisfied with my presentation of it.” [Willa Cather Papers, 1899-1949, in the Clifton Waller … Nebraska. If we are to judge from her previously published material she still feels herself flesh of our flesh, bone of …
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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 her love of that …
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Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing
… aims to memorialize the writer's prose, while conjuring the mystic beauty of Nebraska’s prairies with hand-stitched … embellishments. The portfolio was shot in the fall of 2021 on Nebraska models at founder and designer Rachelle Hruska … through school-assigned readings of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia . But, it wasn’t until later, as a New Yorker, that I …
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