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In Memoriam: Lucia Woods Lindley (1937-2020) — Friend, Photographer, and Philanthropist
… and Philanthropist December 29, 2020 The Willa Cather Foundation has lost a dear friend and supporter in … York, and Nebraska, Woods Lindley is perhaps best known to Cather enthusiasts for her exquisite landscape and intimate … Conservancy to purchase the 612-acre Willa Cather Memorial Prairie and to provide an endowment for its management and …
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Volunteer Profiles: Don & Teri Theobald
… 2020 Don and Teri Theobald live in one of the Willa Cather Foundation's Moon Block apartments and often volunteer at … lawyer at Theobald Law Office. "We appreciate the support we get from the Red Cloud community," they said. … and Red Cloud Opera House as volunteers? The Willa Cather Foundation had a call for volunteers and we felt it was …
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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
… ready to enhance your class’s experience reading Willa Cather or learning about Nebraska history." This year, our … need from our guides to help students contextualize Cather’s writing. To educators we offer: Virtual Tours … Coons will perform outside at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie and in the evening at the Red Cloud Opera House …
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Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators
… Nebraska’s foremost citizen and author of O Pioneers! , My Ántonia & Death Comes for the Archbishop ❧ Willa Cather … (opening 2022). Hastings has options for larger groups (40 mins away). In the Center of Everything Red Cloud is in …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson December 8, 2019 Jerry and Susan Anderson live in the Des Moines, Iowa … immigrant stock; Cather’s books about that time—like My Àntonia and O Pioneers! and One of Ours— allow us to picture …
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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud
… in a special program planned through the National Willa Cather Center. With a well-planned itinerary offered through the Road Scholar program—”Red Cloud: Willa Cather’s Window to the World”—participants enjoyed lectures … & Archives, and visited the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. They also experienced our “ Country Tour ” on board …
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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 thing, avoiding the deep … nodding in time to his bites as he ate down toward them.” — My Ántonia When Jim Burden recalls the legend of “the …
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2019 Artist-in-Residence, Richard Dickson, On What Inspires His Rural Photography
… photographer, has been in residence with the National Willa Cather Center since early July to photograph the landscapes … processes while here, his current work is inspired by Willa Cather's writings and the land which she loved. His … and imagine what it was like in those days. The land, the prairie, the vegetation and isolated homesteads, and the …
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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. … has to offer. A museum exhibit, bookstore, archive, art gallery, Opera House; not to mention the events held at the …
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