Search Results

8 results found

Serena's Album

… entitled Mental Portraits , probably as a 16th birthday gift. These books, also known as autograph albums or … was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather … “Beethoven” is her favorite composer, yet “A Squalling Baby” is her favorite music (her brother James was then 2 …
Posted:
Last Updated:

The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams

… his grounds is a very large stream that flows over the rocks and the current is very swift. How any one could sit …
Posted:
Last Updated:

"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:
Last Updated:

The Potter Family

… or cabinet makers. My father did much contracting or else building houses and selling them. Often he would build a house for themselves and just get moved in when he would sell it and then build another, thus keeping them on the move every few …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's … 2023 too, it has sponsored celebratory Cather 150 events held all over the country—Los Angeles, New York, … Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but there are a succession of …
Posted:
Last Updated:

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

… Image Front cover of the September 5, 1923 issue of the Nation … skies, in contact with the hardy pioneers who subdued its frontiers. And her voice, at once brave and tender in its …
Posted:
Last Updated:

The Art Connection

… raise cattle and crops south of Red Cloud, near the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, and many of her paintings reflect her love of that … enjoyed creating them. Programming at the National Willa Cather's Red Cloud Opera House is made possible with the …
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: