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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… attic room just as she described it, as Thea’s room in The Song of the Lark , allowed us to envision her ensconced there in her own …
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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud

… each of our historic sites , had a tour of our Special Collections & Archives, and visited the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. … offers one the opportunity to experience her writings and learn more about her life in the setting that so greatly …
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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains

… And all along it, wherever it looped or ran, the sunflowers grew; some of them were as big as little trees, with … dozens of blossoms. They made a golden ribbon across the prairie. Occasionally one of the horses would tear off with … using the colorful blooms as trail markers came to be. Cather directly referenced the trail on the Laramie Plain of …
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2019 Artist-in-Residence, Richard Dickson, On What Inspires His Rural Photography

… taken this summer will be featured in his forthcoming exhibit, Beauty in the Ordinary , at the Red Cloud Opera … you to Red Cloud this summer? A few years ago I visited New Mexico, attracted by the sights and the setting of the … metal “junk” here (although it seems more appreciated now than before)? Does it make it even more appealing to …
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Meet Intern William Kelly

… at the Burlington Depot, beginning to read through Willa Cather’s work, and exploring the prairie and rural environs. Where are you from, what are … me to reach out to the Willa Cather Foundation and inquire about an internship. I’m fortunate enough to immerse myself …
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Suicide Grave

… suicide grave in My Antonia  was described by Willa Cather as a little island of tall red grass. Francis … under and under until it had almost disappeared from the prairie; when all the fields were under fence, and the roads no longer ran about like wild things, but followed the surveyed …
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Free Events happening at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference

… Image Free Events happening at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference May … Glass will speak at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, in the Red Cloud Opera House auditorium. Musician Dave Seay will perform “Train …
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WoW Celebrates Anniversary of The Song of the Lark

… Image WoW Celebrates Anniversary of The Song of the Lark July 14, 2015 The Willa Cather Foundation … a picnic and night sky viewing on the 612-acre Cather Prairie, guided tours of the Cather historic sites, an art … from across the state and elsewhere. One limited-edition print featuring artwork from the covers of twenty-four …
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Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

… May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium … Cather's Poems, now in preparation, will be among the last volumes published in that series by the University of … be sent by February 15, 2012 to: Robert Thacker Canadian Studies Program St. Lawrence University Canton, New York …
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Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012

… Willa Cather. Guided tours of Cather's childhood home and other historic sites relating to her life and writing, … An early reviewer of Willa Cather's collection of poems, April Twilights , described its author as having "the gift of …
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