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Brattleboro Literary Festival's Literary Cocktail Hour:
… Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center The Life of Willa Cather with Benjamin Taylor and Ashley Olson Special Events … author, as well as the 612-acre Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, historic lodging, and the Red Cloud Opera House. …
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Book Club Resources
… Book Club Resources The National Willa Cather Center can provide materials for your book club or … to share. We would also love to welcome your book club to Cather’s hometown! Take a tour of the town that raised … club pick amongst the grasses of our Willa Cather Memorial Prairie . Stay in the Cather family’s Second Home with your …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years Cather's essay for the Nation still resonates September 5, … meditations, art and anthropology, reportage and polemic.” Cather wrote to her editor Alfred A. Knopf on August 25, … the importance of a place and its people—the traditions and prairie landscape of the Great Plains that Cather loved and …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones
… stays. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the … will highlight connections to Red Cloud’s history and Willa Cather’s life and writing. The project is a key priority for … enjoy the museum, the historic sites, the town, the Cather Prairie, and other scenic places Cather loved. In the first …
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Potter Block Ceremonial Groundbreaking
… years. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the … milestones in Red Cloud’s history and connections to Willa Cather’s life and writing. The project is a key priority for … enjoy the museum, the historic sites, the town, the Cather Prairie, and other scenic places Cather loved. In the first …
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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann
… it. If you are interested in the same "human stories" Willa Cather illuminated in her own work, you will enjoy this free … monarch groves of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled … Mad Women (Dancing Girl Press, 2017), Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and The …
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My Ántonia
… Image Vintage cover of My Ántonia My Ántonia Book Club Resources In this symphonically … virtues Cather most admired in her country. We first meet Antonia Shimerda as the young daughter of a Bohemian …
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Music in Willa Cather's Writing
… Image Music in Willa Cather's Writing While not a musician herself, Willa Cather was an avid musical consumer! She frequented the … One of Ours. “I wanted my red-headed soldier from a prairie farm to 'get some of his back,' . . . through a fine …
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Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns!
… between the University of Nebraska and the National Willa Cather Center. Nolan Bennett , originally from Kearney, … on the rolling plains of the Midwest” and is enjoying the prairie and farmland around Red Cloud, and being close to nature. Since arriving in Red Cloud he has increased his Cather reads from four novels to seven, after first being …
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Visions Seen in the Air
… contributing artists to contemplate the essence of Willa Cather’s home town and to convey, through any medium, that … sense of place and feeling of home that would later inspire Cather as she created her six Nebraska novels. Exhibiting …
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