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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 two buildings will become a mixed-use space, including gallery and exhibit areas that will highlight important … Fund (an affiliated fund of the Nebraska Community Foundation). Over $5 million in donations, grants, and …
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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann
… monarch groves of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled … arts manager, and registered nurse, Ohlmann finally lands in Texas, buys a house, and gets a dog. But her house … 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
… Schumann-Heink, so her performance of “Wiegenlied” was chosen for this list. Novel's Progression Brings Music to …
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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
Visions Seen in the Air Artist Invitational The exhibit’s title, Visions Seen in the Air , asks invited 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 …
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Press Room
… for the latest newsworthy information about our activities, events, and announcements. Please browse the sub-sections … adaptive reuse project that also incorporates the Red Cloud Opera House (restored in 2003). It contains an archive, museum, …
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Organization History
… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group of … citizens led by Mildred R. Bennett, the first biographer of Cather. Upon moving to Red Cloud shortly after Cather’s … the Nature Conservancy gifted the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie in 2006, the Foundation embarked on a different kind …
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Event Archives
… Event Archives Keywords Type - Any - Art Gallery Author Series International Seminar Opera House … flag, similar to the one shown Botanical Print Workshop Art Gallery: Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 | 8:30am - 2pm CT Kansas …
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Rothenberger Book Talk and Signing
… Visit,” and senior editor and contributing author of “A Prairie Mosaic: An Atlas of Central Nebraska’s Land, … by Library Journal . He considers himself a student of the prairie and popular culture of the Great Plains. Scottsbluff in '62 is available in the National Willa Cather Bookstore or online . Plan to attend the Opera House …
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