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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… School and teaches environmental law while Susan has retired from a career in education law. Both avid Willa Cather … the organization will achieve in the near future? In the long term? Because Cather’s work drew so much on her … on the site. And maybe some pavement that would make the road passable? Lots of possibilities, if the funds are …
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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud
… in a special program planned through the National Willa Cather Center. With a well-planned itinerary offered through … & Archives, and visited the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. They also experienced our “ Country Tour ” on board … 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
… Across the Great Plains August 28, 2019 “The road ran about like a wild thing, avoiding the deep draws, crossing … 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
… photographer, has been in residence with the National Willa Cather Center since early July to photograph the landscapes and buildings in and around Red Cloud and Webster County. Using Victorian-era and … brought you to Red Cloud this summer? A few years ago I visited New Mexico, attracted by the sights and the setting …
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Meet Intern William Kelly
… not to mention the events held at the Opera House, or our conferences. It was surprising because one wouldn’t expect a … theater influenced her writing is astounding. This past spring conference that was on Cather and the theater really …
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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
… at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference May 24, 2017 The Willa Cather Foundation hosts their 62nd annual Spring Conference … United States — one of which is the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. Glass will speak at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, in the Red … Burlington Depot. Author Ann Satterthwaite joins us to talk about her book, Local Glories: Opera Houses on Main Street, …
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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 is celebrating the …
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Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012
Image Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium preceding it will be focused on Cather the poet, on poetry, and on today's poets from the Great Plains region. …
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Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012
… Workshop: May 17-20, 2012 October 26, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the world she knew best, she turned for inspiration to the Nebraska prairie that affected her youth. Each year, the Willa Cather …
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