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Apply for Our New Teacher Institute!
Image Apply for Our New Teacher Institute! March 10, 2022 We are pleased to announce that our inaugural Teacher Institute will take place July 7-11 this year! In an educator needs assessment first made available to teachers in 2019, most respondents …
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MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner
… Image MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner October 25, 2019 “You have a little Willa Cather right here in Bladen,” Antonette Turner told a crowd … she said. As part of its mission, the Willa Cather Foundation helps support K-12 educational initiatives by …
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Lynn R. Wolfe's Red Cloud Roots and a Century of Creation
Image Image Image Lynn R. Wolfe's Red Cloud Roots and a Century of Creation August 4, 2021 Born in 1917, noted artist and scholar Lynn R. Wolfe was raised on his family’s Webster County dairy farm near Red Cloud, along with his older brothers, Henry and …
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Back to School and Back to Cather
… , as well as the new collections pages on our website, to learn about Willa Cather and Red Cloud. There are even … Virtual Programs , including a link to our app (under the LEARN tab on this website) Zoom webinars for your class with … important scholarship programs each year: Several student scholarships , with different requirements and deadlines, …
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Spotlight on the Farmers and Merchants Bank Restoration
Image Image Image Spotlight on the Farmers and Merchants Bank Restoration August 16, 2021 Rehabilitation efforts at the Farmers and Merchants Bank got underway last year and are now coming closer to completion under the supervision of Tru-Built …
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Portrait of Evelyn Osborne Joins the Collection
Image Portrait of Evelyn Osborne Joins the Collection October 20, 2021 In her short story “The Profile,” Willa Cather writes of a painter who falls in love with his subject, a woman named Virginia Gilbert, who bears a long facial scar “caused by a deep …
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Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie
Image Image Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie June 15, 2022 Visit the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie "We come and go, but the land is always here...” —O Pioneers! Here in Nebraska we are surrounded by wide open horizons and the natural …
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Meet our 2022 Summer Humanities Interns!
Image Image Image Image Meet our 2022 Summer Humanities Interns! June 15, 2022 This summer, the National Willa Cather Center, with support from the Nebraska Cather Collaborative, has hired three humanities interns to assist with tours and guest services, …
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Ken Burns Announces Creation of National Willa Cather Center
… Image Ken Burns Announces Creation of National Willa Cather Center March 18, 2014 The Willa Cather Foundation has … sharing their passion on social media. We hope they will donate as well as spread the word." Gallagher added that the …
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Welcoming our new Executive Director
Image Welcoming our new Executive Director March 21, 2014 The Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors has announced that Ashley Olson, Associate Executive Director, will assume the position of Executive Director beginning April 21. This announcement …
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