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Local artists' exhibit at the Red Cloud Opera House

… at the Red Cloud Opera House May 13, 2016 The 61st annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, “‘Both Bitter and Sweet’: Cather, Literature, and the Great War,” will focus on World War I and its effects on American life and culture. …
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Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie

… Image Image Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie June 15, 2022 Visit the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie  "We come and go, but the land is always here...” —O Pioneers! Here in Nebraska we are surrounded by wide open …
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"A Lost Lady" Published in Brazil in Portuguese

… novel. We recently interviewed Tamboni on his interest in Willa Cather’s writing, his choice of A Lost Lady for their first … can work as important warnings about what’s going on in the world right now. There’s an ecological warning, as Professor …
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Celebrate National Poetry Month

… Image Celebrate National Poetry Month April 1, 2020 Willa Cather published April Twilights , her first book of poetry, … in literature, music, the arts, and settings of the world. As Cather scholar Robert Thacker noted in a new …
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Lynn R. Wolfe: A Retrospective

… Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States The National Willa Cather Center is honored to remember the legacy of Red … Wyoming, and Texas. He served for two-and-a-half years in World War II as a photo intelligence officer assigned to the …
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Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… outreach project, as well as on the front lines of tour and visitor engagement in our bookstore. Thara is also … puzzle. What’s next? THARA —My internship ends on August 7, then I’ll briefly be at home in Bennington and afterwards … I want to have a job on top of that. I like being busy and building relationships with coworkers. MAGGIE —My internship …
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In Memoriam: Lucia Woods Lindley (1937-2020) — Friend, Photographer, and Philanthropist

… Woods Lindley is perhaps best known to Cather enthusiasts for her exquisite landscape and intimate interior … gift of the Red Cloud Opera House and to embark on a major campaign to restore it. Years later, she encouraged the … Romines on her friend Lucia Woods Lindley will appear in a future issue of the Willa Cather Review . Many people in the …
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Meet Joanna Blitch: Illustrator of Special Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa

… our centenary publication of Youth and the Bright Medusa,  Willa Cather's 1920 collection of eight stories, and her first … force that drives so many of her characters. A place in the world of art, especially music, is the dangerous, …
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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 touring options … 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

… Red Cloud—Our unique small town on the prairie and meet Willa Cather, Nebraska’s foremost citizen and author of O … — Explore our exhibit, American Bittersweet : The Life & Writing of Willa Cather Tour the extensive Collections & …
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