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The Fourth Grade Project

… the subject care-taker’s reactions to photography in each country. In the US, photographing from the front can be … Download the lesson plan Fourth Grade Project Lesson Plan: Tour the World Help students compare and contrast their …
Posted: 11/28/2023
Last Updated: 03/13/2024

The Potter Family

… Jennie McDougal (1843–1923), in 1860. He served in Company F of the 19th Iowa Volunteers; after being wounded, he … 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 months. His …
Posted: 08/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/27/2024

Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal

… “crazy-wall” of evidence and yarn-linked people, places, and ideas, and you get a sense of the connections … but had recently finished a watercolor of the Cathers’ home (the Cather Second Home on Seward Street) and visited with acquaintances of …
Posted: 02/21/2024
Last Updated: 02/21/2024

Virtual Author Series: Jacob Friefeld & Angela Bates

… history during our first author series of 2024! Join us as we talk with Jacob Friefeld, author of The First … The First Migrants  from our online bookstore  here . About Jacob Friefeld Jacob K Friefeld is the director of the … Nicodemus, Kansas. She has served on the Kansas Historical Foundation board of directors and is a member of the …
Posted: 12/28/2023
Last Updated: 01/19/2024

Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined

… role in the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about the West and those who inhabited it. Imprinting the … by Dr. Randall Griffe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, visitors to the Red Cloud Opera … with a grant from the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation and support from the Claire M. Hubbard …
Posted: 09/20/2023
Last Updated: 01/12/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in  Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Annotations from the Archive: The Willa Cather Childhood Home

… of planning, research, and parallel work on both the house itself and the collections that have been housed within … many resources from our archive to search for clues about how the house was constructed, updated, and used over … of the house shows, at magnification, the original brick foundation, much of which was lost during 20th century …
Posted: 12/03/2023
Last Updated: 12/05/2023

Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading

… Image Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather Special Events Thursday, Dec 7, 2023 | 7 - 8pm … Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis by Melissa Homestead The Selected Letters of … Willa Cather Living: A Personal Record by Edith Lewis Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture by Julie …
Posted: 10/04/2023
Last Updated: 12/05/2023

Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined

… Events Friday, Dec 15, 2023 | 1 - 2pm Red Cloud Opera House and Art Gallery 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States Join us for a lecture about Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and … with a grant from the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation. Support for this lecture comes from the Claire …
Posted: 12/04/2023
Last Updated: 12/04/2023

Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday

… Nov 9, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Poudre Libraries — Harmony Library 4616 South Shields Fort Collins , CO 80526 United States … her prairie-plains novels ( O Pioneers!  [1913],  The Song of the Lark  [1915], and especially  My Ántonia  [1918]) had …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/26/2023

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