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Volunteer Profiles: Don & Teri Theobald

… 4, 2020 Don and Teri Theobald live in one of the Willa Cather Foundation's Moon Block apartments and often … moved from Lincoln. What brought you to the National Willa Cather Center and Red Cloud Opera House as volunteers? The … you see the buildings and town and feel the openness of the prairie. You can easily visualize the time and placde in …
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Meet Joanna Blitch: Illustrator of Special Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa

… publication of Youth and the Bright Medusa,  Willa Cather's 1920 collection of eight stories, and her first … to submit your portfolio?  My mother is interested in Cather and her work. She sent me the call for illustration … to visit Red Cloud and the Willa Cather Cather Memorial Prairie, though. Were there any particular things—images, …
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Autumn Offerings for Educators

… them. "I want visitors to feel the impact of what they learn here, even if they can't actually be here," Rachel … to enhance your class’s experience reading Willa Cather or learning about Nebraska history."  This year, our touring … important scholarship programs each year: Several  student scholarships , with different requirements and deadlines, …
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Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators

… 7, 2020 Visit Red Cloud—Our unique small town on the prairie and meet Willa Cather, Nebraska’s foremost citizen and author of O … , My Ántonia & Death Comes for the Archbishop   ❧ Willa Cather once said, “I always return to Nebraska.” ❧ Visit one …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… has retired from a career in education law. Both avid Willa Cather enthusiasts, the Andersons have traveled to various settings around North America that appear in Willa Cather’s novels. They recently spent time in Red Cloud where … at a beautiful October sunset on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. You recently visited Red Cloud. What brought you …
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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud

… production of Oceans of Grass at the Red Cloud Opera House. Throughout their visit, our education staff led the group in lively discussions on several of Willa Cather’s novels, while noted … “ A Walk in Her Footsteps ” three-day tour weekend or contact our education staff to help shape your ideal group …
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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains

… Image Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains August 28, 2019 “The road ran about like a wild … the trail on the Laramie Plain of Wyominng in  The Song of the Lark , "where the wagon-trails of the … the landscape.] However, sunflowers were nothing new on the Plains. As early as 5,000 years ago, Native Americans …
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2019 Artist-in-Residence, Richard Dickson, On What Inspires His Rural Photography

… and buildings in and around Red Cloud and Webster County. Using Victorian-era and traditional photographic processes … So I learned about Cather and sought out her other works, contacted the Foundation, and on a return visit to New … I used early photographic processes, hand coating paper and contact printing the negative, or used a special paper in …
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Meet Intern William Kelly

… at the Burlington Depot, beginning to read through Willa Cather’s work, and exploring the prairie and rural environs. Where are you from, what are your interests, and what brought you to the Willa Cather Foundation? My upbringing split time between Omaha, …
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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 …
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