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Rachel Olsen

… Image Rachel Olsen Director of Education & Engagement Rachel Olsen joined the Willa Cather Foundation as a tour guide in …
Posted: 01/06/2023
Last Updated: 02/22/2024

Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… January 15, 2023 Rachel Olsen has been part of the Willa Cather Foundation staff since 2017, when she was hired as a … visitors and students who come to Red Cloud to learn about Cather. What are the highlights of your job evolution … or to look at contemporary art in our gallery or visit the prairie, I hope they understand that our organization is …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/07/2023

Echoes of the Archbishop

… Image Willa Cather at Mesa Verde Image Willa Cather's circa 1924 map of … Lewis’s Tall Tales of the Southwest,” by David Harrell. In Vol. 33 of the Willa Cather Newsletter & Review. pp. 4-8.  …
Posted: 08/29/2025
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources

… different ways to access primary source materials for the classroom. Our online collections search is a quick way for … and Engagement, Rachel Olsen, can arrange for your class to take part in these activities; you can contact her … sources. Image Student FAQ sheet Of course, with a whole classroom generating FAQs, the next step is the development …
Posted: 07/29/2024
Last Updated: 09/09/2025

Short Stories

… please contact director of education and engagement Rachel Olsen, at  rolsen@willacather.org .  As always, the Willa Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/27/2025

School Field Trips

… a day or a full day, at affordable rates for a range of class sizes.  During a half-day field trip, students will be …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/14/2025

70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Cather's House: Examining Built and Natural Environments in Her Work … musical storytelling.   Attendees are also encouraged to visit, We're Still Here: American Indian Spirit in the Unmade Place , on view at the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery. Funding was provided by Humanities …
Posted: 07/01/2024
Last Updated: 06/23/2025

NWCC Launches NEH-Funded Digital Projects

… and descriptions necessary for creating the mobile tour apps  on the Cuseum platform. Designed to enhance … this app, too." The app allows users to explore the Cather Childhood Home, the  American Bittersweet  exhibit, or take the …
Posted: 02/16/2021
Last Updated: 02/21/2025

Red Cloud Opera House

… Nebraska towns, the thing I miss most is the Opera House." —Willa Cather, Personal Interview Built in 1885, the Red Cloud … real people speaking the lines can give us that feeling of living along with them, of participating in their …
Posted: 07/10/2014
Last Updated: 01/28/2025

Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are commemorating acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s 150th year with a host of special events throughout 2023 and 2024. December 7, 2023 marked the … for the Archbishop • Virtual Oct 20 — UNL Opera presents O Pioneers! , 7:00 p.m. • Red Cloud Opera House, Red Cloud, NE …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 12/31/2024

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