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

… Front cover of the September 5, 1923 issue of the Nation “Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years  … 1921 that she “ must get to work at once on an article on 'Nebraska'  the Nation has asked me to do for their … embarked on a Midwest speaking tour which included stops in Nebraska. In Omaha she admonished Nebraska’s decision to …
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Virtual Author Series: David McKay Powell

… Online Now Learn more about the art form that inspired Willa Cather during her entire life! Author David McKay Powell … a dearth of musical education, Cather produced astute writing about the genre beginning in her earliest criticism …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones

… since that time, and over $3 million in donations and investments has been secured, bringing total funds secured …
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Potter Block Ceremonial Groundbreaking

… Foundation). Over $5 million in donations, grants, and investments have been secured. Paired with up to $1 million …
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The Professor's House

… old house. It contains his study where he does all of his writing for his historical books, but it also is the place … over the course of a few years, is an excellent example of Cather’s ability to use complex structures and a simplistic … fill in the gaps.  The Professor's House  is a true show of Willa Cather's skill as an accomplished writer. Download …
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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann

… monarch groves of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled … arts manager, and registered nurse, Ohlmann finally lands in Texas, buys a house, and gets a dog. But her house … Mad Women  (Dancing Girl Press, 2017),  Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide  (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and  The …
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Virtual Author Series: Tracy Daugherty

… Street.   This novel explores the friendship between Willa Cather and Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. Two different writers … personal essays, a collection of essays on literature and writing, as well as biographies of Donald Barthelme, Joseph …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… local organizations or simply had to purchase their own small selection of reading materials. In 1913, the new Red Cloud YMCA created a library in one of its rooms, with material donated by the P.E.O. club, … It's unclear what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is …
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Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns!

… with a English degree and concentration in American Literature, and a minor in Psychology. Nolan says he feels very much “at home on the rolling plains of the Midwest” and is enjoying the prairie and … of an author looks like and means. It has also been a great experience working with other like-minded people who …
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Authors Margo Jefferson & Elizabeth Kendall

… United States '"Raw and relentless/gaudy and extravagant": Willa Cather's New York' Join us at the  18th International Willa … arts critic for  Newsweek  and the  New York Times . Her writing has appeared in, among other publications,  Vogue ,  …
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