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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 …
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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 … is very swift. How any one could sit in such a peaceful place and plan such wars, I can’t figure out… Image …
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"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 …
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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) …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost citizen," wrote author and Nobel Prize-winner Sinclair Lewis. "The United … as a regional writer for decades after her passing in 1947, critics and commentators have increasingly identified Cather …
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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
… 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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