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The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams

… of Clarence O. Williams The story behind the play, Not Too Far Distant October 15, 2024 Playwright Becky Boesen gleaned … Division. According to his son Thomas, “for reasons he never shared, he took a camera with him, and produced the … carefully catalogued and documented album after returning home, ultimately settling in Lincoln, Nebraska.” He …
Posted: 10/15/2024
Last Updated: 10/22/2024

"Books Old and New"

… Bookstore features every book written by Willa Cather or about Willa Cather—and a wide selection of other books, too. … in Pittsburgh "Books Old and New" From The Home Monthly August 9, 2024   Today is National Book Lovers Day and a fine … as Willa Cather always did—and that the Willa Cather Foundation continues to do in her name.  "Cather and the …
Posted: 08/09/2024
Last Updated: 08/09/2024

The Potter Family

… winter.   Red Cloud Mills Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, December 6, 1878 THE RED CLOUD MILLS, owned and operated by … to run it is light, and It is kept constantly in operation, night and day, for nine months in the year. All tho latest …
Posted: 08/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/27/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … Willa Cather: A Literary Life  had each appeared in 1987; about that time too the era’s leading Cather critic, the … Cather was not suited to be a prairie farmer so after about a year and a half in Catherton the family moved into …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

“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 …
Posted: 09/05/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

The Art Connection

… the good things in the past and her connection with the farm land. Gwen Lewis was born in Red Cloud, Nebraska, and … on the family farm in central Nebraska, and her roots have never strayed very far. Close family and community ties have … in pastels, but her most recent work features layers of homemade paper and acrylic to create mixed media …
Posted: 01/06/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing

… about Willa Cather through school-assigned readings of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia . But, it wasn’t until later, as a …
Posted: 03/24/2022
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

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