Nebraska’s new icon

“Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet,”Willa Cather once wrote.

The famed literary artist first came to Nebraska at the age of nine, when her family settled in Webster County.Years later, she reflected on what it was like to first step foot in our great state.

“My deepest feelings were rooted in this country because one’s strongest emotions and one’s most vivid mental pictures are acquired before one is fifteen,” Cather wrote retrospectively.