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Nick Powers, Our On-Staff Nebraska Master Naturalist

… and Nebraska Master Naturalist Nick Powers, Our On-Staff Nebraska Master Naturalist Take a Guided Prairie Tour … University of Nebraska. Nick has been with the Willa Cather Foundation since January 2022 and is currently pursuing a … to get better at the Prairie Tour, particularly talking about the plants and animals that live on the prairie. I …
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Red Cloud Opera House

… every word of those posters; the names of the plays and the nights on which each would be given. After we had decided … could prevail upon our parents. Would they let us go every night, or only on opening and closing nights?" "How good … a $275,000 challenge grant for the Opera House in December 2001, which the Foundation matched three-to-one and …
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Volunteer

… to assist with performance load-in and load-out. Visitor Information Assistants Do you enjoy meeting new people? If … at the National Willa Cather Center Access to Opera House events Volunteer orientation and training will be provided …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny enclave of French culture that was Quebec City at the end of the seventeenth … an important first step for Cather—she wrote much of the material it published herself, fiction, nonfiction, and …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Also accompanying the family are Rachel Boak, the hired girl Marjorie (Margie) Anderson, and Willa’s cousins Bess … Isabelle. Getting ready to write a novel about Virginia ( Sapphira and the Slave Girl ), Cather revisits that her native state with …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… stamp September 6, 2023 In 1969, the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors pursued a series of postage … to hear Regional Postmaster General Clarence B. Gels speak about Willa Cather. Also in the audience were relatives of … F. Wackerla employed 34 extra workers to help his regular staff handle the 600,000 First Day of Issue stamps. Ten Red …
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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… and engagement and, in this capacity, she will lead educational programing, site tour initiatives, and public … she is not getting to know visitors or working on educator resources, Rachel enjoys volunteering and spending time with … for meeting visitors and students who come to Red Cloud to learn about Cather. What are the highlights of your job …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 2.1  Spring 1958  Editor: Mildred R. Bennett  Officers and Board of Governors p. 1  Staff Activities p. 2  … as guest speaker p. 39  1986 Prairie Workshop p. 41  Cather posthumously inducted into National Cowgirl Hall of Fame and … from La Fonda: Cather, Puvis, and Santa Fe's St. Francis Murals AUTHOR: John J. Murphy, Emeritus, Brigham Young …
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Joseph Kyle’s Last Visit Leads to Unexpected Bequest

… Image Joseph Kyle’s Last Visit Leads to Unexpected Bequest September 27, 2022 …
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Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker

… 30, 2022 Although Tracy Tucker has been with the Willa Cather Foundation for a decade as Director of Education, she … & Curation as part of an internal restructuring. Learn more about Tracy and her new role—and what this means … diverse interests, talents, and work backgrounds, such as prairie botany and gardening skills, photography and graphic …
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