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The Potter Family
… the Red Cloud sawmill south of the Webster Street business district. Later J.Q. and Jacob opened the first … they still came once or twice a year after we came there in about 1875 but were always friendly. . . . After my father … power. The dam is strongly constructed upon a rock foundation, as lasting as the rock of Gibraltar. The mill is …
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Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal
… Image Grant Reynard's "Straw Stack" Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal August 14, 2022 The archives are built upon the art and the science of memory. … a sense of the connections and influences at play in the archives, too. One tool of the archivist’s trade is …
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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 …
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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 …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny enclave of French culture that was Quebec City at the end of the seventeenth … an important first step for Cather—she wrote much of the material it published herself, fiction, nonfiction, and …
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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 …
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Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading
… National Willa Cather Center. Hear an excerpt from Taylor's new book, followed by what is sure to be an engaging talk … Times/Christopher Isherwood Prize and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice; his Proust: The Search was … York Times Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag, Debriefing , was published by …
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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 …
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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday
… Image Talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, President, Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events Thursday, Nov … Fort Collins , CO 80526 United States LEARN MORE Join us for birthday cake and a free talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, … We are in the midst of the centenaries of these books and about to celebrate the sesquicentennial of Cather’s birth. …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas … homestead claims near a site that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871 — In Silas Garber’s … Register of Historic Places and open year-round for guided tours. Winter 1883 to 1884 — Willa Cather attends a …
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