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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

… 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

… boxed lunch ($15 per person, inc. tax/tip) or a customized menu at extra cost. Or let us plan a perfect prairie …
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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

… Image Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud October 25, 2019 In early October 2019, … , had a tour of our Special Collections & Archives, and visited the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. They also … of Grass at the Red Cloud Opera House. Throughout their visit, our education staff led the group in lively …
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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains

… dozens of blossoms. They made a golden ribbon across the prairie. Occasionally one of the horses would tear off with … using the colorful blooms as trail markers came to be. Cather directly referenced the trail on the Laramie Plain of … seem to me the roads to freedom." When you visit Willa Cather's Red Cloud or the  Willa Cather Memorial Prairie …
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2019 Artist-in-Residence, Richard Dickson, On What Inspires His Rural Photography

… scan color film and often have prints made from the digital file but still use archival chemical processes. I prefer 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. 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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