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The <i>Ties</I> That Bind
Image Image Image Image An Art Exhibit by Betty Kort Art Gallery Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | 12am - Saturday, Aug 19, 2023 | 12am We are delighted to bring a special exhibition by Hastings artist Betty Kort to the newly restored Burlington Depot! The Ties …
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A Lost Lady
Image Vintage cover of A Lost Lady A Lost Lady Book Club Resources "If her image flashed into his mind, it came with a brightness of dark eyes, her pale triangular cheeks with long earrings, and her many-coloured laugh. When he was dull, dull and tired of …
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Virtual Author Series: Alex Kava
Image Author Series Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Acclaimed mystery novelist Alex Kava will be on hand to talk about her impressive career as a Nebraska author who writes in the tradition of other Nebraska mystery novelists such as …
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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann
Image Author Series Thursday, Aug 17, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Join us for an engaging conversation about Nebraska memoir with Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann, two writers with Nebraska roots who explore the world in order to learn …
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Virtual Author Series: Tracy Daugherty
Image 148 Charles Street Cover Author Series Thursday, Oct 12, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Help us welcome Tracy Daugherty as he discusses his book 148 Charles Street. This novel explores the friendship between Willa Cather and Elizabeth Shepley …
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My Ántonia
Image Vintage cover of My Ántonia My Ántonia Book Club Resources In this symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library
… Red Cloud did not have a public library until 1917. Though literary clubs were popular in the area, most people relied … of the Auld Library and the purchase of books. Charles Cather was elected the first president of the library board. … what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is significant; …
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Music in Willa Cather's Writing
Image Music in Willa Cather's Writing While not a musician herself, Willa Cather was an avid musical consumer! She frequented the opera, developed acquaintances and friendships with the leading musicians of her day, and wrote them into her novels, short …
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John William Boone & Cather
… Boone & Cather "for I shall be the first... " In Cather’s My Ántonia , narrator Jim Burden encounters the ancient … is "On Working the Land." From the Georgics comes the My Ántonia 's epigraph, “Optima dies . . . prima fugit.” The … a 1918 review for The Dial , Randolph Bourne writes of My Ántonia , “Here at last is an American novel, redolent …
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Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns!
Image Nolan Bennett Image Lucy Koenig Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns! Spending their summers with us in Red Cloud July 7, 2023 The Humanities Internship at the NWCC offers an experiential learning opportunity for an advanced undergraduate (completed at …
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