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The Potter Family
Image Charles R. Potter Image Charles and Jennie McDougal Potter The Potter Family Five Potter brothers came to Red Cloud to settle the county. John Quincy Potter (1835–1923) came to Red Cloud in 1873 and along with his brother Jacob, began operating the …
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Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal
… only tell a portion of the story, and that’s where the art comes in. Every object, every paper, is a part of a web that … . In September 1947, just a few months after Willa Cather’s death, Mildred Bennett, newly settled in Red Cloud after the … Hampshire, Willa Cather was working on “Death Comes To the Archbishop” [sic] there. I believe this was 1926. Oddly …
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Virtual Author Series: Jacob Friefeld & Angela Bates
Image Author Series Thursday, Jan 18, 2024 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Immerse yourself in Great Plains and homesteading history during our first author series of 2024! Join us as we talk with Jacob Friefeld, author of The First Migrants: How Black …
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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 … published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on Cather's work. This critical interest in Cather …
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Annotations from the Archive: The Willa Cather Childhood Home
… us the paint colors seen on the house today. While the archives provides a great deal of information about the … As always, we take our lead from the information in our archives and new discoveries made as the Childhood Home …
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Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading
… Image Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather Special Events Thursday, Dec 7, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Willa Cather Foundation 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970-2466 United …
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Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined
… Anderson's talk. Support for this exhibit at the National Willa Cather Center was made possible 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
… Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Poudre Libraries — … her prairie-plains novels ( O Pioneers! [1913], The Song of the Lark [1915], and especially My Ántonia [1918]) had …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas … lost, will later use this event in one of her most famous novels, My Antonia . 1882 — Red Cloud becomes a division … many immigrants in the region and listening to their stories. 1884 — Willa Cather and her family move into town. …
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