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Nick Powers, Our On-Staff Nebraska Master Naturalist
… works—that emotional connection to the land. Providing more content on the environment will help visitors understand how …
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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
… 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
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's … to support such a claim: Sharon O'Brien's influential psychobiography Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice and James … has transformed Cather studies. For example, a new Cather biography, Benjamin Taylor’s Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four … in part on events in the lives of Silas Garber and his wife Lyra Garber, receives serial publication in Century at …
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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 … body the importance that Miss Cather holds in American and world literature. It is eminently appropriate both that her …
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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
… 1.2 Fall 1957 Editor: Miriam Mountford Staff Activities p. 1 … Sign p. 1 Aims of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial p. 1 Places Made Famous by Willa Cather p. 2 World Wide Interest … p. 1 Conference Schedule p. 1 A Cornish Childhood p. 2 Gallery Holds "Feelings": Four Lucy Gayheart Paintings by …
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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 … Kyle. The news came from Dr. Kyle’s son, Alex Kyle, who shared that he had escorted his father to Nebraska in 2019 for … visiting south-central Nebraska, the Kyles ventured to Red Cloud to see the National Willa Cather Center, participate …
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Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker
… backgrounds, such as prairie botany and gardening skills, photography and graphic design, and you have worked as a … you remember that we were first called the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, and so a great many of Red Cloud’s oldest … keep things—her fan mail is a great example—but living in small New York spaces, keeping must have been hard. I think …
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