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Rick Cook and Strait Country SOLD OUT!

… the arts in our community! Programming at the National Willa Cather Center's Red Cloud Opera House is made possible with … Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment About Rick Cook Rick Cook was brought up in a musical family …
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NWCC Launches NEH-Funded Digital Projects

… NEH-Funded Digital Projects February 16, 2021 The National Willa Cather Center is pleased to announce two new digital … one. "The education team here at the NWCC felt strongly about using the time during our closure to move the …
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Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up

… Cather wrote to her family, “The new Swedish edition of “O Pioneers” is one of the handsomest books I have ever seen. I … (December 6, 1919). Image 1919 Swedish translation of O Pioneers! Later on, perhaps when no longer useful for …
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Virtual Author Series: Jim Locklear

… spring with author Jim Locklear! Jim will join us to talk about his book, In the Country of the Kaw , a personal … the environmental and ecological setting of Red Cloud and Willa Cather's prairie writings within the broader context of the …
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Virtual Author Series: Joy Castro

… off with Joy Castro, who will give a reading and discussion about her most recent novel, One Brilliant Flame . A common … in stark contrast to the Great Plains homesteading town of Willa Cather's youth in the 1880s.   This event is free with …
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Leslie & Helen R. Wilson Memorial Scholarship

… R. Wilson Memorial Scholarship Due April 20 - Annually About the Scholarship / Eligibility The purpose of the … Blue Hill High School Student Scholarships To further Cather’s legacy and to support the next generation of Cather readers and scholars, the Willa Cather Foundation annually awards a number of …
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Norma Ross Walter Scholarship

… is to provide financial assistance to female graduates of Nebraska high schools who plan to enroll as English majors … School 2010: Julia Vaughan, Fremont High School 2011: Jaime DeTour, Hastings High School 2012: Emily Simmons, Valentine …
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Ántonia Scholarship

… Pavelka, prototype for Ántonia Shimerda in Cather's novel  My Ántonia  and Mary Rosicky in Cather's short story … South High School 2022: Chloe Berger, Wilson Hill Academy 2023: Campbell Collins, Collins Homeschool 2024: Eleanor …
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Red Cloud Opera House

… Image Image Image Image Red Cloud Opera House When I go about among little Nebraska towns, the thing I miss most is the Opera House." —Willa Cather, Personal Interview Built in 1885, the Red Cloud …
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Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts

… 2025 January 6, 2025, marks another important centenary in Willa Cather's career: the opening of the feature film adaptation … in a letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood, "Wasn't it funny about sister Jessie playing about in the movie world with 'A …
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