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Red Cloud Opera House
… Image Red Cloud Opera House "When I go about among little Nebraska … speaking the lines can give us that feeling of living along with them, of participating in their existence." It was … of participating in their existence. The poorest of the old road companies were at least made up of people who wanted to …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/07/2024
National Willa Cather Center Scholarship
… National Willa Cather Center Scholarship Due May 1 ABOUT THE SCHOLARSHIP / ELIGIBILITY The purpose of the … value of living in a rural community in which the Red Cloud Opera House is located. FINANCIAL DATA One $1000 scholarship will …
Posted: 03/12/2024
Last Updated: 03/12/2024
Cather 150 Campaign: Advancing Her Legacy and Enriching Lives
… 150th birthday, we organized a yearlong celebration with events from California to New Hampshire , and many places in … Historic Landmark, which Cather memorialized in The Song of the Lark . To continue these efforts and further advance …
Posted: 11/06/2023
Last Updated: 01/11/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … Cather critic, the late Susan J. Rosowski, published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Willa Cather Timeline
… her paternal grandparents, William and Caroline Cather. The house, called Willow Shade, is located in an area near Back … brother Roscoe Cather is born. 1879 — Railroad begins operating in Red Cloud. 1880 — Willa Cather’s second oldest … Gere, Cather visits Brownville, Nebraska. A feature story about Brownville titled "The Old River Metropolis" was …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration
… The Library is pleased to partner with the National Willa Cather Center to commemorate Willa Cather’s 150th birthday. This monumental year for Cather … the Center is an award-winning archive and museum that operates as a living memorial to Cather. It houses the …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Willa Cather 150th Birthday Celebration
… and events in Brownville, NE in a celebration of Willa Cather, including: Sunday, October 15 at 1:30 pm – National … arts center, 10 historic sites, and a 612-acre native prairie that make up the largest collection of nationally … designated historic sites dedicated to an American author. LEARN MORE Mary Carrick Mezzo-Soprano Mary Carrick is a …
Posted: 09/10/2023
Last Updated: 10/08/2023
The Bel Canto Duo: Four Cather Tableaux
… Cultural Endowment. About the Artists The Bel Canto Duo was founded in 2016 by Darci Griffith Gamerl (oboe/English horn) …
Posted: 04/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2023
Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings August 1, 2023 As has been noted so … worker Grace Abbott, as well as Helen Keller, Jane Addams, opera singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink, and Mary E. Woolley, …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023
68th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… Drawn from her 2021 history, Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Plains , … Their aesthetic expressions sought to create a sense of place by restorying the northern grasslands with settler … by University of Nebraska Press (2021), includes Rozum’s “‘Nature Rarely Establishes Sharp Boundaries’: Settler Society …
Posted: 06/08/2022
Last Updated: 05/31/2023