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The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams

… they used the slave labor guarded by SS Troops to make the tools of war etc. In the largest single section of the camp …
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

… this wagon as she was a fine horsewoman and could always manage a horse or team better than my father who had never …
Posted: 08/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/27/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… P. Stout’s Cather Among the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative … between sides multiple times). The Cathers, who had a sheep farm, were sympathetic to the Union and some of Cather's … removed to this place which seems otherworldly: "I had never before looked up at the sky where there was not a …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

“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 … on the map” as Babbit would glibly phrase it. It would be literary sacrilege to speak of so fine a composition in the …
Posted: 09/05/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

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 …
Posted: 01/06/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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

… embroidery and handmade crocheted embellishments. The portfolio was shot in the fall of 2021 on Nebraska models at …
Posted: 03/24/2022
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

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