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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Dustin Mater
… of Fame: An Exhibition of Native Pop Art at the National Willa Cather Center’s Red Cloud Opera House Gallery. At the show, … Mater specializes in shell carvings, gorgets, carved sculpture, portraits and other designs that illustrate …
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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory
… Webster County and your family history here. I was born in Red Cloud, delivered by Dr. Francis Obert August 19, 1943. I … and I feel as if I am right there back in that time frame visiting what was taking place—kind of like being in a time …
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Willa Cather and One of Ours: A Dramatic Reading
… Working Opera House Saturday, Nov 16, 2024 | 6 - 8pm CT Red Cloud Opera House and Art Gallery 413 N Webster St Red Cloud … with the cast and crew of One of Ours . Be sure to visit Joslyn Castle & Garden's website for more details …
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Annotations from the Archives: October is American Archives Month
… very fabric of democracy, since the French Revolution ushered in the idea of centralized, publicly accessible … author as a girl. Other snippets of information about Red Cloud and its citizens are also contained in those cards. … enhance or disrupt our reading of My Ántonia . To make your visit, you can schedule an appointment or email our …
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Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief
… from the first extant Red Cloud Chief, October 9, 1873 Volume I, No. 15, is the first surviving issue of the Red … local history or, in our case, exploring the life of Willa Cather. We know that Willa Cather held a warm place in her … a regular reader of that newspaper. Decades later as Cather Studies were just beginning, it was through those preserved …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… her “library,” with her books labeled and sometimes numbered in the back room of her father’s office. As our … to visit, Hommage: Willa Cather , on view at the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery, and Travis Hencey's new exhibit, …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn about … has become known as one of America’s canonical authors. The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings …
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Historic Sites
… Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront of of the preservation movement, restoring and caring for … attic bedroom is described in detail in her 1915 novel The Song of the Lark. The home was acquired by the Willa Cather Foundation …
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Willa Cather Biography
… from and references to Cather’s own letters. Thus without question, the complex brilliance Skaggs saw in Cather during … more than that, of herself as a person. The character in question is the book's antagonist, Clement Sebastian, who … help secret Nancy, the enslaved girl, away from slavery to freedom in Canada. It concludes in a way reminiscent of …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas Garber, former captain in the United … Register of Historic Places and open year-round for guided tours. Winter 1883 to 1884 — Willa Cather attends a one-room … need, sends $50 to Annie Sadilek Pavelka to be used for a gift. Annie uses the money to pay for taxes on her farm …
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