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Dec 12, 2024 | 
sinicapodcast.com | Willa Cather |Kaiser Kuo
China's rapid surge in electric vehicle manufacturing, adoption, and export has variously encouraged, delighted, impressed, frightened, and even enraged people around the world. What did China get right in facilitating the explosive development in this industry? Was is just subsidies, or were there other important policies that helped jumpstart it? How have other geographies responded? And what can they learn?
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
theindependent.com | Willa Cather
Friday, Nov. 8Marine Corp Birthday celebration, hosted by Chef Anthony and the Business Coalition for Veterans, 11 a.m., Grand Generation Center, 304 E. Third St. Program will honor veterans, and include entertainment and a meal served by the center; reservations required (nominal charge); 308-385-5308; information: Chef Anthony, 308-227-8018“Catapult,” 6:30 p.m., Merryman Performing Arts Center, 225 W. 22nd St., Kearney.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
theindependent.com | Willa Cather
Friday, Nov. 8Marine Corp Birthday celebration, hosted by Chef Anthony and the Business Coalition for Veterans, 11 a.m., Grand Generation Center, 304 E. Third St. Program will honor veterans, and include entertainment and a meal served by the center; reservations required (nominal charge); 308-385-5308; information: Chef Anthony, 308-227-8018“Catapult,” 6:30 p.m., Merryman Performing Arts Center, 225 W. 22nd St., Kearney.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
theindependent.com | Willa Cather
Thursday, Nov. 7Pitch Party for Seniors, 2 to 3:30 p.m., The Heritage at Sagewood, 1920 Sagewood Ave., Grand Island. Parties usually offered the first Thursday of the month; Erica Long, 308-398-8005. “David Kaufmann: Businessman, Community Leader, Philanthropist, Quiet Hero,” presented by Michelle Setlik, Hall County Historical Society vice president, 6 p.m., at Kearney Public Library, 2020 First Ave., Kearney. Free; Setlik, 308-380-4480.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
theindependent.com | Willa Cather
Wednesday, Nov. 6“Willa Cather Writes the Immigrant Experience in Rural Nebraska,” presented by Rachel Olson, director of education and engagement for the Willa Cather Foundation, 1:30 p.m., Wilson Auditorium, 814 N. Turner Ave., Hastings.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
theindependent.com | Willa Cather
Tuesday, Nov. 5Election Day: Don’t forget to vote!!Fall Bazaar, hosted by United Women in Faith of First United Methodist Church, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Marian Hall, 408 W. 11th St., Wood River. Event includes coffee and rolls (8 a.m.); chili, chicken noodle soup and pie (11 a.m. to 7 p.m.) freewill offerings; and “new to you” tables, offering quilts and other handmade items. Soup & Pie Day, hosted by Messiah Lutheran Church, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., 415 S. 18th St., Aurora.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
taosnews.com | Willa Cather |Amy Boaz
Death Comes for the Archbishop Please purchase a subscription to read our premium content. If you have a subscription, please log in or sign up for an account on our website to continue. (University of New Mexico Press, 2024, 236 pp., intro by Richard W.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
theindependent.com | Willa Cather
Saturday, Nov. 2Honey Sunday weekend, hosted by The Arc of Central Nebraska, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Hy-Vee gas station, Super Saver 5 Points, Rooted Books and Gifts (Saturday only) and Casey’s at 281 and Capital. Cash and Venmo accepted; $6 per bottle. Honey will also be sold churches, school groups and more; Teshawna Sawyer, 308-379-8070, or [email protected] Janson, in concert, 7:30 p.m., Heartland Events Center; doors open at 6.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
newoxfordreview.org | Willa Cather
The Violent Bear It Away. By Flannery O’Connor. It’s too bad that Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (1938) is regarded generally as little more than a sentimental piece of Americana. The milkman, the strawberry phosphates, choir practice, Wally’s stamp collection, Emily and George’s wedding — these quaint elements of the play are merely the shadows through which we find the painful longing for the divine in and through the movements of the ordinary.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
sandiegoreader.com | Willa Cather
Famed author’s “Prairie Spring” and “Evening Song”Prairie SpringEvening and the flat land,Rich and sombre and always silent;The miles of fresh-plowed soil,Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness;The growing wheat, the growing weeds,The toiling horses, the tired men;The long empty roads,Sullen fires of sunset, fading,The eternal, unresponsive sky.
