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The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams

… green. In the center of the spacious grounds was a small lake with swans and ducks swimming around. Sometimes it is hard to realize a country at war with all the beautiful things they have here. … of the camp was several thousand prisoners from every country in Europe and even some Americans. They were now …
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"Books Old and New"

… Image Some children's books in the Willa Cather Childhood Home Image Willa Cather in Pittsburgh "Books Old and New" … Books Old and New. Helen Delay "My book and heart shall never part." —New England Primer [The editor of this … us who have read over and over the books we possess and are far from circulating libraries often drop out of the way of …
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The Potter Family

… a camp fire. . . . With so many emigrants coming to a new country, it made the housing a very serious problem and as … settlement surrounded by dykes to hold back the waters of Lake Michigan. In 1860 he rode forty miles in a jolting … years. He was the oldest of the brothers who came to this country. It is possible there was one older than he who 'did …
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Willa Cather Biography

… by singularities. When Philip Roth died in 2018, New Yorker editor David Remnick held that “he was in … editions has been Cather Studies , gatherings of critical essays by various hands, now in its sixteenth volume. Both … periodical that reaches a broad audience beyond academy, is published three times a year by the National Willa …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years  Cather's essay for the Nation still resonates September 5, … spanned from 1922-24 featuring different authors writing about 48 states. In 2003, John Leonard wrote in the Nation , … the importance of a place and its people—the traditions and prairie landscape of the Great Plains that Cather loved and …
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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 …
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Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing

… aims to memorialize the writer's prose, while conjuring the mystic beauty of Nebraska’s prairies with hand-stitched … embellishments. The portfolio was shot in the fall of 2021 on Nebraska models at founder and designer Rachelle Hruska … through school-assigned readings of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia . But, it wasn’t until later, as a New Yorker, that I …
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