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Artist Reception: Christopher Strickland's "Expanding Perceptions"

… Cloud Opera House is made possible with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. …
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Rothenberger Book Talk and Signing

… of Small Town America . Beginning in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, the cruisin’ capital of western Nebraska, the 60s music scene is quickly expanded to reflect … Show and the Woodstock Music Festival. A member of the Nebraska Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, Rothenberger portrays …
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Virtual Author Series: Oscar Hokeah

… copy of the novel here . Funding was provided by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. …
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Andrea von Kampen

… Kampen, an independent folk singer/songwriter from Lincoln, Nebraska. Her recent debut album, Old Country , is based on … often draws on literature, art and nature – focusing on Nebraska and the Midwest – for musical inspiration. We’ve …
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Literary Societies—Annotations from the Archive

… Willa Cather's Mount Holyoke-educated aunt who came West to Nebraska in a wagon in 1873. Despite the many challenges of … at the Winchester Female Institute. After arriving in Nebraska, she taught in a Webster County country school and … belonging to her daughter Blanche were found on a western Nebraska "junk jaunt" and brought to the National Willa …
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Annotations from the Archive: Business Papers

… considerable sum of money to old friends and neighbours in Nebraska, to help them through these hard times. I had much … to plan a research visit. To make the most of your time in Nebraska, you should also visit the Cather collections at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and History Nebraska; the rich archival …
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Annotations from the Archive—The Right Reverend George Allen Beecher Letters

… George Allen Beecher, who served as Bishop of Western Nebraska from 1910-1943, shared a long friendship with Willa …
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Annotations from the Archive: Explore the Collection Online

… work. Mildred Bennett collected pieces by well-known Nebraska painters, Grant Reynard and Elizabeth Dolan, and …
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Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days

… and prolific career in magazine writing and editing: “Miss Willa Cather, the editor of the Home Monthly , is not … tell you. It is W. A. Magee, you know, the man who ‘owns’ Pittsburgh. I have known his sister in law but had not met … that all Western men are rough-necks. I hate publishing stories in magazines, anyway, and only do it because they …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thornton Oakley

… in 1881 in Pittsburgh; he graduated from Shady Side Academy and initially trained as an architect before studying … the scale and smoke of industrial Pittsburgh. He married Amy Ewing, a travel writer, and the couple collaborated on … that Cather suggested. Enchanted Brittany , written by Amy Oakley and illustrated by Thornton Oakley, was published …
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