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Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal
… and reappraise many of the objects acquired when the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial was a nebulous new idea, yet to be … Howard Pyle, the illustrator who had so inspired Willa Cather as a child. Though the Reynard paintings hold a … (1966) recalled that afternoon, and posthumously, the Prairie Schooner published an expanded version under the …
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Brattleboro Literary Festival's Literary Cocktail Hour:
… Taylor Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center The Life of Willa Cather with Benjamin Taylor … programming, the Center is home to a museum, art gallery, archive, and study center. In addition, the Center …
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Book Club Resources
… your book club; the location where Willa often returned to visit her family and friends. If your group can’t make it to Red Cloud, we would love to come to you! Take a virtual tour of …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… Nebraska where one used to be able to go into a bakery and buy better pastry than is to be had anywhere except in the … generation which tries to cheat its aesthetic sense by buying things instead of making anything. She deplores a …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones
… and underpinning prepared the Potter Block building to support the eventual return of a third floor that was lost … and Red Cloud Community Fund of the Nebraska Community Foundation. The Heritage Tourism Development Office was … of Omaha, Nebraska. How You Can Help Please consider supporting the project with a charitable gift. Naming and …
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Potter Block Ceremonial Groundbreaking
… was completed in 2020 prepared the historic building to support the return of a third floor that was lost to fire in … Fund (an affiliated fund of the Nebraska Community Foundation). Over $5 million in donations, grants, and … charitable gifts can be made to the Willa Cather Foundation or the Red Cloud Community Fund. Donations of any …
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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!
… Humanities Internship at the NWCC offers an experiential learning opportunity for an advanced undergraduate … 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 …
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