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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 … blocks below to access discussion questions, activities, or images to share. We would also love to welcome your book …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… Her soul was given texture and form on its sweeping plains, under its clear skies, in contact with the hardy … and its people—the traditions and prairie landscape of the Great Plains that Cather loved and knew as a young woman, … of the change from coppery-brown prairie, peopled only by bison herds and bands of Indian hunters and wild fowl, into …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones
… facilities, a small lending library, artwork and historic images on exhibit, and guest rooms for overnight stays. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the …
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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 powerful …
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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!
… prairie and farmland around Red Cloud, and being close to nature. Since arriving in Red Cloud he has increased his … perfect summer would be spent delving into her life in the place Cather grew up. “ While at the National Willa Cather … • The next application process will take place in spring 2024. …
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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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