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Red Cloud Opera House

… Image Red Cloud Opera House "When I go about among little Nebraska towns, the thing I miss most is the Opera House."  —Willa Cather, Personal Interview Built in 1885, the Red Cloud …
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Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding

… Image Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding December 16, 2022 As we conclude … Silas Garber, their lives and legacy in Red Cloud, and the broader history of the community. In our organization’s early … to eat and plenty of water to wash it down with, but how long can a man subsist on bread and water, besides you say …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials related to the life and works of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. Our … children, as well as some unidentified people. Diplomas and teaching certificates, commencement program for Roscoe and …
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Cather Legacy Society

… to the Foundation Why a Bequest?  This simple method of remembering the Willa Cather Foundation assures that some … the Immigrant Experience Abbie Loomis first discovered My Ántonia as a teenager and has been reading her mother's copy …
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Willa Cather Residency for Writers

… eventually artists of all media—to reside and create in Red Cloud, Nebraska for two weeks. A new initiative of the … National Willa Cather Center, the program reflects the life-long reverence that world-renowned author Willa Cather had … the communities in half of her novels. In a nod to the long road that Willa Cather traveled before she became free to …
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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Arigon Starr

… struggled to pick one area of creative Interest. “It’s a long and winding road story,” she says. “In high school, I loved art, music … stories to the media. Starr says the knowledge she acquired on the job was invaluable, as her work brought her …
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The Potter Family

… Jennie McDougal (1843–1923), in 1860. He served in Company F of the 19th Iowa Volunteers; after being wounded, he … them. Often he would build a house for themselves and just get moved in when he would sell it and then build another, thus keeping them on the move every few months. His …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 2.1  Spring 1958  Editor: Mildred R. Bennett  Officers and Board … Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip … 36.1  Spring 1992  SPRING CONFERENCE NEWS  Editor: John J. Murphy  TITLE: …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… School and teaches environmental law while Susan has retired from a career in education law. Both avid Willa Cather … the organization will achieve in the near future? In the long term? Because Cather’s work drew so much on her … on the site. And maybe some pavement that would make the road passable? Lots of possibilities, if the funds are …
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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains

… Trails Across the Great Plains August 28, 2019 “The road ran about like a wild thing, avoiding the deep draws, … crossing them where they were wide and shallow. And all along it, wherever it looped or ran, the sunflowers grew; … When Jim Burden recalls the legend of “the sunflower-bordered roads to freedom” in  My Ántonia , he remembers the …
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