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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann
… monarch groves of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled … arts manager, and registered nurse, Ohlmann finally lands in Texas, buys a house, and gets a dog. But her house … Mad Women (Dancing Girl Press, 2017), Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and The …
Posted: 07/08/2023
Last Updated: 07/13/2023
Music in Willa Cather's Writing
… she enters the world of formal study in the urban Chicago landscape, her musical parameter shifts to a classic, … Kronborg’s ascent to the height of her musical career. She lands the plum role of Sieglinde in Richard Wagner’s Die … One of Ours. “I wanted my red-headed soldier from a prairie farm to 'get some of his back,' . . . through a fine …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/09/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Herbaria of Webster County
… names of our own for them." When Willa Cather described her prairie childhood in "The Education You Have to Fight For," … how they struggled to apply their Eastern educations to the lands of the West. We're inspired too, to think about how we … ttucker@willacather.org. You can also schedule a guided prairie tour (but please, no specimen collecting!) by …
Posted: 06/17/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Marlena Myles
… experience that will guide people through the sacred lands at Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary and Indian Mounds … the U.S. government forced Indigenous people off their lands, destroyed burial mounds and built a railroad over the … to rectify the past by restoring the area back to a Native prairie. She says she hopes the installation will bring a …
Posted: 12/18/2022
Last Updated: 12/22/2022