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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
… I used to stand for an hour after school, studying every word of those posters; the names of the plays and the nights …
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Volunteer
… Volunteer Image The Willa Cather Foundation was started in 1955 by Mildred R. Bennett and a … for our visitors. Volunteers will work with Foundation staff to establish a schedule and task list. Volunteer … for all new volunteers. To become a volunteer or learn more about volunteer opportunities with the Willa Cather …
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Willa Cather Biography
… P. Stout’s Cather Among the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative … between sides multiple times). The Cathers, who had a sheep farm, were sympathetic to the Union and some of Cather's … removed to this place which seems otherworldly: "I had never before looked up at the sky where there was not a …
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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
… result, every newspaper in the country printed at least one item about Willa Cather. (Have you sent the Memorial a copy …
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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen
… of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen January 15, 2023 Rachel Olsen has been part of the Willa Cather Foundation … I wasn’t a harsh critic, either, she just wasn’t on my radar. In graduate school, my areas of interest were late … she’s messy, and that is what I love about her. If My Ántonia connects readers to the world of immigrant …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… Mountford TITLE: Willa Cather Museum Dedication Author: John G. Neihardt p. 1 Report of Museum Dedication and Spring … Interview in the Lincoln State Journal) p. 2 TITLE: O Pioneers! An Early Nebraska Review, August 13, 1913 AUTHOR: … Day of Issue p. 1 Willa Cather Centennial Festival--Events at UNL and Red Cloud p. 2 Notice of Mrs. Roscoe …
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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 There are few things more …
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Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker
… 2022 Although Tracy Tucker has been with the Willa Cather Foundation for a decade as Director of Education, she was … & Curation as part of an internal restructuring. Learn more about Tracy and her new role—and what this means for the … that I’m only able to do this with the help of some great staff members and volunteers! Apart from your job …
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