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Opera Soprano, Sarah Arneson

… 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States World-renowned opera soprano and Red Cloud native Sarah … operatic pieces from composers who were alive during Willa Cather's lifetime. The duo has selected opera arias from two …
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Telling War Stories: Rhetoric of the Great War

… NE 68970 United States Though the focus of the 61st annual Willa Cather Spring Conference was the literature of Willa Cather and her contemporaries as it reflects the First World War, literature is only one response. “Telling War …
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Summer Snow: A Celebration of Landscape

… a man to love his country like this . . . ." – One of Ours, Willa Cather The cottonwood tree is a familiar feature of Willa … up with their lives.” She notes too, as she wrote during World War I, the incredible damage done to the trees of …
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Native Grasses of the Apache Highlands

… Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States The National Willa Cather Center welcomed artist Matilda Essig of Sonoita, … centers on the subtle diversity that underlies ecosystems worldwide and examines the complex relationships within a …
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"Complete and Great" Exhibit & Artist Reception

… place on Friday, June 1, from 5:00 -6:00 pm. My Ántonia , Willa Cather's celebrated novel, continues to inspire the work of artists around the world. Complete and Great showcases the work of a number of …
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"A Walk in Her Footsteps" Tour & Theater Package

… Oct 25, 2019 | 12am - Sunday, Oct 27, 2019 | 12am National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 … inspiring days, October 25-27, exploring Willa Cather's world and Red Cloud with our newly launched "A Walk In Her …
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Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days

… (March 28, 1897), with these observations at the start of Cather's early and prolific career in magazine writing and editing: “Miss Willa Cather, the editor of the Home Monthly , is not … I'm told. Of course the magazine is the worst trash in the world, but it is trash they want and trash they pay me for …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail

… Fan Mail August 22, 2022 Our archives are home to not only Willa Cather’s letters, but to many of the letters that she … some portions of the book, especially its depictions of World War I; one letter in particular, from bookseller …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thornton Oakley

… to our collection separately, though both originated with Willa Cather’s niece, Helen Cather Southwick. Both had come to us … would have more ‘drive’ in the market of a motor-mad world, than a book of essays, surely.” Sergeant was, by this …
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Annotations from the Archive: Our Organizational History

… of 1957, Mildred Bennett and the founding members of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial felt that their work in Red Cloud … aims were: To perpetuate an interest throughout the world in the work of Willa Cather To identify and restore to …
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