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My Ántonia
… powerful and magnificently observed novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American … undemonstrative strength make her emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. We first meet Antonia … suicide by the oceanic loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. Through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor and …
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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!
… between the University of Nebraska and the National Willa Cather Center. Nolan Bennett , originally from Kearney, … on the rolling plains of the Midwest” and is enjoying the prairie and farmland around Red Cloud, and being close to nature. Since arriving in Red Cloud he has increased his Cather reads from four novels to seven, after first being …
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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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Press Room
… that follow for contact information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, and the work of the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Contact Information … setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the …
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Organization History
… early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small group of Red Cloud citizens, interested individuals, … Cather, great woman, great literary artist, who once was one of ours and now belongs to the great world and to time, … Sites and the collection became known as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection. The Foundation later assumed …
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Event Archives
… Art Gallery Author Series International Seminar Opera House Prairie Writers Special Events Spring Conference Image … across Nebraska. Learn More Image Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library Special Events: … join us for a sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured American …
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The Art Connection
… raise cattle and crops south of Red Cloud, near the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, and many of her paintings reflect her love of that … enjoyed creating them. Programming at the National Willa Cather's Red Cloud Opera House is made possible with the …
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A New Garden Ethic: Lecture by Landscape Designer Benjamin Vogt
… Image Friday, Apr 27, 2018 | 4 - 5:15pm The Cather Foundation welcomes author and landscape designer … we garden for. A New Garden Ethic is available in the Willa Cather Foundation bookstore. Vogt’s talk is free and open to … gardening column at Houzz.com. He is a regular speaker on prairie garden design, sustainable gardening, and wildlife …
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Pollinator Workshop
… Image Tuesday, Sep 6, 2016 | 10am - 2pm Willa Cather Memorial Prairie 5 miles South of Red Cloud on HWY 281 Red …
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