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Visions Seen in the Air: An Invitational Exhibit

… in Red Cloud will be a celebration of 150 years of Willa Cather’s life and work. As part of that celebration, we will … memory are on full display as she so poignantly creates a world that is both Red Cloud and the fictional Sweet Water. …
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Free Author Talk: Bruce Whitacre

… be reading poetry from his book  The Elk in the Glade: The World of Pioneer and Painter Jennie Hicks.  The book … the talk. —Purchase The Elk in the Glade  from our National Willa Cather Center Bookstore or online here — …
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"A Walk in Her Footsteps" Weekend Tour Package

… sites and sounds that changed American literature. Take a detour from the scramble of urbanity and absorb the rolling prairie landscape in Red Cloud, Nebraska: the home of Willa Cather. Upon your arrival, you … ❧ Cather once remarked, “When I go about among little Nebraska towns (and the little towns, not the big cities, …
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Celebrate Prairie Spring!

… Spring to the prairie with tours and readings at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie in the afternoon, and a screening of … of the last remaining intact temperate grasslands in the world.  Presented through voices from three different …
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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… Olsen January 15, 2023 Rachel Olsen has been part of the Willa Cather Foundation staff since 2017, when she was hired as a … I love about her. If My Ántonia connects readers to the world of immigrant homesteaders and domestic workers via …
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What We're Grateful For: Staff Reflections

… Staff Reflections November 22, 2022 Some of our National Willa Cather Center staff reflect upon what they're grateful for … part of an organization that brings so much joy to the world with the arts, education, preservation, and so much …
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Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker

… Image Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker October 30, 2022 Although Tracy Tucker has been with the Willa Cather Foundation for a …
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Ways of Reading: On the Road with Tim Youd's 100 Novels Project

… of the Los Angeles-based Artillery magazine, visited the Cather literary sites and prairie landscapes where Youd … literary pilgrimages that would take Youd all over the world. Now, almost a decade later, I’m in Red Cloud, … to watch Youd (pronounced you’d) perform a retyping of Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark . Speaking of larks: …
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"Red Cloud circa 1900" on Display

… painting is also featured in the 2015 “Legacy of Nebraska” calendar, which is available for purchase in-store at Cather …
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Remembering Our Fallen

… for a complete traveling schedule. The author Willa Cather, who gave her commencement speech from the Red Cloud Opera House stage, was very affected by World War I and the death of her cousin, G.P. Cather. She …
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