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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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Abbi Detlefsen
… Education & Program Associate Abbi joined the National Willa Cather Center staff as a tour guide in 2024 and was promoted … for studying historical events and people that she learned about from her father and grandfather. …
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My Ántonia: The Story of a Great American Novel
… and a novel that is part of today’s literary canon, My Ántonia’s worldwide appeal is demonstrated by its … 15-19: See Tim Youd ’s (American, b. 1967) Willa Cather’s My Ántonia , on view in Hawks Pavilion Gallery H8, and plan …
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Omaha Street Percussion
… Opera House Friday, Feb 7, 2025 | 7:30 - 9:30pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. About Omaha Street Percussion What is known today as Omaha …
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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Marlena Myles
… experience that will guide people through the sacred lands at Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary and Indian Mounds … the U.S. government forced Indigenous people off their lands, destroyed burial mounds and built a railroad over the … to rectify the past by restoring the area back to a Native prairie. She says she hopes the installation will bring a …
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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, … and Cherokee Nation member Tom Farris approached him about participating in 49 Minutes of Fame , Mater says he …
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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory
… but ,as a child, I was not aware of the hardships. We always ate well thanks to big gardens, canning, and homegrown … do art when I grew up. I was able to take some lessons from private teachers and workshops. I studied art books and did … In the 1990s, I did a lot of mural work in businesses and private homes. This gave me the opportunity to paint BIG. I …
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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!
… cities in Europe where I used to love to go . . ." -Willa Cather in a letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood While Willa … Tour (offered on Saturdays through March 2025)! LEARN MORE ABOUT THE BIG READ BOOK A MY ÁNTONIA TOUR …
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'My Ántonia' Holiday Tour
… the many seasonal winter and Christmas details described in My Ántonia —at the very same places that inspired locations … place in the world—from Otto’s cowboy trunk..." — My Ántonia Book soon as tours are likely to sell-out! This … as part of our National Endowment for the Arts Big Read of My Ántonia programs and initiatives. LEARN MORE …
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Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day
… Image Nebraska Roll of Honor for Grosvenor P. Cather Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day November … of thousands of young men and women in military conflicts. Willa Cather would have known November 11 as Armistice Day, … Day to honor veterans of all U.S. wars. You can learn more about the history of Armistice Day and Veteran's Day at the …
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