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Red Cloud Opera House

… Opera House features a full  performance schedule  and is home to the Willa Cather Foundation offices, art gallery and … successful man in Hastings and traveled extensively, but he never outgrew his love for Red Cloud, Nebraska. He and his … most necessary to us, there was always the question of how far we could prevail upon our parents. Would they let us go …
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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 was first published in 1951 in The World of … (the “do.” at the end means “ditto,” giving us the double “s”). He has also coded his response to the question …
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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"

… linger with them until they go down into the Valley of the Shadow in earnest. Whenever I meet a child who likes Bunyan …
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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

… George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic portrait … 1921. Rinehart-Marsden Studios. Today Willa Cather is one of the most important American novelists of the first … matriculation requirements.) Having just arrived from a small town, she took full advantage of the capital's …
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“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 …
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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

… aims to memorialize the writer's prose, while conjuring the mystic beauty of Nebraska’s prairies with hand-stitched … Cather 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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