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Finding Aids
… The Betty Kort Collection was donated by Willa Cather descendants James and Angela Southwick and contains … Cather started this address book in the late 1920s. It includes addresses of Cather’s friends, family, business … 2008. Scope and Content: Willa Cather's Address Book includes names and addresses of friends, family, business …
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Opening Plenary Session: Ann Lundberg
… Image Ann Lundberg In A World Above the World: Willa Cather at Mesa Verde in 1915 Spring Conference … nineteenth century and early twentieth century, and how it works to define national identity. She's presented and … Casa Grande in Arizona, "The Ruin of Expectations." Her teaching resume includes both environmental literature and …
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Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights
… April 8, 2025 Though Willa Cather is known worldwide as a novelist, her first published work was a collection of … A Literary Life, by James Woodress. Letter to Fred Otte, 28 Nov 1940, WCPM Collection April Twilights (1903), Cather’s …
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Unseen & Underfoot: The Hidden Diversity of the Plains
… Prairie A special science exhibition in the West Atrium Art Gallery Monday, Mar 17 - Saturday, May 17, 2025 | All day The … The focus on nematodes of the prairie expands the sense of place in landscapes. The diversity in the prairie nematode …
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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Dustin Mater
… of Fame: An Exhibition of Native Pop Art at the National Willa Cather Center’s Red Cloud Opera House Gallery. At the show, … Mater specializes in shell carvings, gorgets, carved sculpture, portraits and other designs that illustrate …
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The Field, The Fire: an exhibition by Travis Hencey
… exhibition to be held in conjunction with the 69th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference. The conference, Cather and … courthouse lawn. Habits, rituals and traditions. The same stories remembered and retold. Year after year. Again and … fragmented and rambling as my resignation. Parts and pieces collected over the years, cobbled together, fumbling to make …
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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen
… takes shape, I’m already starting to think of ways we could update the visitor experience. Speaking of Covid, the Willa …
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Music on the Prairie
… for visitors to explore the land that Cather so vividly described in works such as My Ántonia and O Pioneers!. … Professor of English at Simpson College, just south of Des Moines, Iowa, where she teaches writing and literature … Glover’s scholarly curiosity in place and identity includes a book project titled “[Re]-settling the United States: …
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Join Us On August 23rd In Red Cloud
… Image Join Us On August 23rd In Red Cloud June 20, 2014 The Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors invites you to … his time between composing, painting, performing and teaching. Tickets: $150*—Patron Ticket ($110 tax-deductible) … and appreciation of the life, times, settings and works of Pulitzer Prize-winning Nebraska author, Willa …
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A.P. Andrews to Lead Writing Workshop
… Writing Workshop June 29, 2015 When famed novelist Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the world she knew best, she turned for inspiration to the Nebraska prairie that impacted her youth. The eighth in an annual …
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