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Ardis Yost’s Chocolate Sheet Cake & Frosting
… 2021, we are featuring this recipe from our cookbook, At Willa Cather's Tables: The Cather Foundation Cookbook [2010: … is fairly thick. Frost cake while it is still warm, about 10 minutes after baking. — Ardis Grace Mullen Yost, …
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In Memoriam: Lucia Woods Lindley (1937-2020) — Friend, Photographer, and Philanthropist
… the Foundation to accept the gift of the Red Cloud Opera House and to embark on a major campaign to restore it. Years … needed impetus for the 2003 restoration of the Red Cloud Opera House. Betty Kort, then board president, said at the …
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Volunteer Profiles: Don & Teri Theobald
… November 4, 2020 Don and Teri Theobald live in one of the Willa Cather Foundation's Moon Block apartments and often … is on the board of the Republican Valley Arts Council. At events, we serve as bartenders and we get to visit with … favorite Willa Cather novels? The Song of the Lark and My Antonia . If you were to tell someone who had never …
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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 … Blitch's evocative images. We asked Blitch to share more about her artistic vision and process for these wonderful …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… and our ancestors must have experienced – the unbroken sea of grass stretching out to the horizon. Remarkably, we met the … Cather Center to install her amazing exhibit on native grasses . Her work opened our eyes to the incredible beauty …
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Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020
… for 2020 August 28, 2019 As a young college student, Willa Cather’s academic path took an unexpected turn when, … unbeknownst to her, a college professor sent her essay about Thomas Carlyle to the Nebraska State Journal for …
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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 … - September 30, 2019). We recently asked him some questions about his photography and his summer residency. Tell us a …
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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 … and what brought you to the Willa Cather Foundation? My upbringing split time between Omaha, Nebraska, and … archive, art gallery, Opera House; not to mention the events held at the Opera House, or our conferences. It was …
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Free Events happening at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference
… Image Free Events happening at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference … year’s conference includes many events that are free and open to the public, brought to you in part by Humanities … Local Glories: Opera Houses on Main Street, Where Art and Community Meet, Friday morning in the Red Cloud Opera House …
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Ecotourism on the Great Plains: Red Cloud Workshop
… of Nebraska’s Center for Great Plains Studies for a free workshop to explore how ecotourism works, see examples, … – 2:30 p.m.: Incorporating star gazing activities into your community events, ecotourism sites, and summer activities (John …
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