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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy
… a general manager, sales and event manager, housekeeping staff, and a head chef. The hotel restaurant will include … made possible by gifts from many generous individuals and foundations. These private gifts helped leverage grant … Nebraska Passport program. MAKE A DONATION Learn more about the Hotel Garber project —All gallery images, below, …
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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
… towns, the thing I miss most is the Opera House." —Willa Cather, Personal Interview Built in 1885, the Red Cloud … to set the mood, scene, and tone of the 1890s, when Willa Cather and her friends eagerly anticipated the arrival of … people." "But I am sorry that the old Opera Houses in the prairie towns are dark, because they really did give a …
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Volunteer
… at the National Willa Cather Center Access to Opera House events Volunteer orientation and training will be provided … author talk at 1:00 p.m . and Jonathan Goodding's artist reception at 5:00 p.m. …
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Willa Cather Biography
… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Gere, Cather visits Brownville, Nebraska. A feature story about Brownville titled "The Old River Metropolis" was … graduates from the University of Nebraska and joins the staff of the Courier . While still working for the … House. (It would not reopen until after the Willa Cather Foundation begins its restoration efforts beginning in 1991 …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … eventually became the scholarly journal, Willa Cather Review ) and issues of the informational News from Cather …
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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen
… Olsen January 15, 2023 Rachel Olsen has been part of the Willa Cather Foundation staff since 2017, when she was hired as a …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … access to specific articles and special features of each issue of the Review since its first publication in 1957. … 1964 Editor: Miriam Mountford Aim and Interpretation of Catherland p. 1 Plow is a Symbol of Cather Museum p. 1 … p. 3 Cather Garden Dedicated p. 3 New Signs Placed on Country Roads p. 4 …
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Joseph Kyle’s Last Visit Leads to Unexpected Bequest
… Park in Richmond, Virginia, and later joined the staff of Historic Hanover Tavern and taught at … believed motivated his father to remember the Willa Cather Foundation in his estate plan, Alex Kyle said, “My dad was … to celebrating literature and its way of educating people about early life on the Great Plains.” With his bequest, Dr. …
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