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National Willa Cather Center Hours & Directions

… (70 miles north of Red Cloud) The airport offers Budget and Thrifty car rental services. Take South Highway 281 … northeast of Red Cloud) The Lincoln airport offers Avis, Budget, Hertz, National, Alamo, and Enterprise rental car … to K 181 North, and continue north into Red Cloud. Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a …
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A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society

… that springs to mind for them is a performance of the opera,  The Bohemian Girl , that was staged to help celebrate the re-opening of the Red Cloud Opera House in 2003. Willa Cather saw the same opera on the same …
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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather

… forward to welcoming you! Book a Tour About the Restoration Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a …
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Discover

… Writers For Teachers For Teachers For Students For Students Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a …
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The Willa Cather Foundation

… the work of contemporary writers; Organization of an annual residency program for a small cohort of writers; Curation of …
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Unseen & Underfoot: The Hidden Diversity of the Plains

… printers, scientists, and wildlife photographers involved in the Unseen and Underfoot project represents two … in Crop Improvement and Protection in 2017 and went on to get his MS in Nematology at Ghent University in 2020; he …
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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory

… from photographs—or both? I do both. Sometimes a photo is involved but I may add some remembered things which could be … or stenciling with no end in mind. Something usually will get my imagination going and in the end it actually is a … nothing was told to me and my imagination put the story together. Hopefully I tell the story in the way the painting …
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Nick Powers, Our On-Staff Nebraska Master Naturalist

… efforts in the state. Many of the instructors are involved with the Nebraska Games and Parks or the University … on Nebraska’s ecosystems,” Nick said. “I wanted to get better at the Prairie Tour, particularly talking about …
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Press Room

… cultures in desert southwest; and the pursuit of artistic success. Her work remains the subject of scholarly … importance as an American writer active in the first part of the 20th Century, but whose work and influence … House (restored in 2003). It contains an archive, museum, gallery, and study center owned and operated by the Willa …
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Organization History

… of her short stories. For the first twenty-five years of operations, the Foundation amassed a large museum collection … the novel  My Ántonia  the  Grace Episcopal Church , which houses a pair of stained-glass windows donated by Cather in … later assumed responsibility for day-to-day management and operation of the Willa Cather State Historic Sites in 1994 …
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