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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… National Willa Cather Center will remain a primary location to learn about and research one of America's most …
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Students Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely!

… Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely! June 25, 2020 Despite … be entirely remote while still giving each intern valuable museum work experience. Our two interns this summer are Alise … work, and we thought it would be fun to share a little bit about them. Alise Perault is a Preservation Studies graduate …
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Visions of the Prairie

… II | Scott Kirby Paintings by Scott Kirby Art Gallery Friday, Mar 20 - Saturday, May 16, 2026 | All day Red Cloud … by the American Great Plains. Referred to as an “accidental artist” by Sandpoint Magazine , Kirby began making … of Kirby's transition from music to art was, in a way, “accidental,” or unexpected, and his scenes are rooted in a long …
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Finding Aids

… available for download. Betty Kort Collection Date range:  1762-1973 Bulk dates:  1918-1943 Finding Aid created by Tracy … genealogy Burlington & Missouri River Railroad journals building records financial instruments Related Materials:   … materials Notes on WCPM museum displays, historic sites, tour scripts Loose clippings about Cather, WCPM, Red Cloud …
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Timothy W. Bintrim

Image Timothy W. Bintrim Johnstown, PA Tim Bintrim teaches first-year writing and American Literature at Saint Francis University, the alma mater of Charlie Schwab, the high-rolling "iron king" in "Paul's Case." He and his wife, Beth, have three adult …
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Amy Balmanno

Image Amy Balmanno Fresno, CA Amy Balmanno is a great-great-granddaughter of Anna and John Pavelka. I grew up in California and spent many summers in Blue Hill with my great-grandmother, Antonette Pavelka Kort. When she first read My Ántonia as a …
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Robert H. Wolfe

Image Robert H. Wolfe Conroe, TX Born in Omaha and raised in Lincoln with family ties to Red Cloud, Bob earned a BA in American Studies and a JD from George Washington University. He practiced corporate law with international engineering and construction …
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Amy L. Springer

Image Amy L. Springer Red Cloud, Nebraska Originally from New Orleans, Amy Springer first came to Red Cloud as a Willa Cather enthusiast and recent family medicine residency graduate. I later made Red Cloud home, serving as a rural physician, and am now …
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Marian Fey

Image Marian Fey Omaha, Nebraska Marian Fey has been serving children and families through nonprofit and education work for more than twenty years. Before her role as Executive Director of The BRIDGE Family Resource Connector Network, Marian was the …
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Jack F. Preis

… in Illinois and then, after college, worked in the grain business for Archer Daniels Midland. He is a frequent … the book, I realized that much of what I saw as special about rural life and farming was in fact part of a much more … life and that, through promoting these ideas, the Foundation can improve the lives of those near and far." …
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