We left Boulder Monday a bit after noon and went up into Nebrsska, got on to US 136, and spent the night in Alma, NE. Tuesday we awoke to rain, but proceeded to Red Cloud, home for a time to Willa Cather, in her childhood years, and a Cather center today. Her works celebrate the lives of pioneers.
Entrance to the Cather Foundation exhibit,
Cather's first home in Red Cloud
The second Cather home
Czech costume relating to protagonist of My Antonia novel
Red Cloud is also home to Post Office murals created by the WPA arts program during The Depression. The artist was Archie Musick, a student of Thomas Hart Benton:
A Musick mural
Detail of a second mural
From Red Cloud, we went to Beatrice, NE, home to the only National Historic Site in NE: The Homesteading Monument, celebrating (and critiquing) the Homestead Act of 1865 and its impact on the U.S,
The Homesteaders cabin housed 12 people for 40 years!
The Visitor's Center mimics the shape of a plow blade.
An exhibit at the Center
Next month is the centennial of the publication of My Antonia
We spent the night in Bethany, MO, and on Wed., went up into Iowa and on to US 30, crossing the Mississippi at Clinton, Iowa.
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