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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… preservation and restoration of the Cather buildings and archives. If you would like to share your story with the …
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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

… dozens of blossoms. They made a golden ribbon across the prairie. Occasionally one of the horses would tear off with … , he remembers the story of Mormon settlers, scattering seeds along their trail so others could follow their path to … in areas where hot, dry weather has killed or stunted prairie grasses. Under better conditions, the prairie …
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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 … - September 30, 2019). We recently asked him some questions about his photography and his summer residency. Tell us a … and imagine what it was like in those days. The land, the prairie, the vegetation and isolated homesteads, and the …
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Meet Intern William Kelly

… executive director, Ashley Olson. While in Red Cloud, he is living in the apartment at the Burlington Depot, beginning to read through Willa Cather’s work, and exploring the prairie and rural environs. …
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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

… Anniversary of The Song of the Lark July 14, 2015 The Willa Cather Foundation is celebrating the 100th anniversary of … a picnic and night sky viewing on the 612-acre Cather Prairie, guided tours of the Cather historic sites, an art … Armstrong at aarmstrong@willacather.org or at 402-746-2653. About the Performers Michelle Dean (soprano) is currently a …
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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 … have long noted her sharp presentation of herself as prairie poet with "Prairie Spring" at the beginning of her … prose is "poetic," very few readers have had much to say about Cather's own poetry. In 1962 scholar Bernice Slote …
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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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