Search Results

624 results found

50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a … to hear Regional Postmaster General Clarence B. Gels speak about Willa Cather. Also in the audience were relatives of … every newspaper in the country printed at least one item about Willa Cather. (Have you sent the Memorial a copy of …
Posted:
Last Updated:

A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… recalled. “I was cast in an opera at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and fell in love with it.”  After college, … Zei, my voice teacher and opera director at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Eva Likova, my voice teacher for … plot is loosely based on my life growing up on a farm in Nebraska and of Norwegian heritage. Many aspects of my life …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Annotations from the Archives: Homesteading and Home-Building in the Archives

… the member of the Cather family who shared life in early Nebraska with a reading public, she arrived with her parents … written by George Cather, both before and after his move to Nebraska to homestead. George was a regular diarist, and the … and even trees that he planted before leaving for Nebraska.    Image Pages from George Cather's 1906 diary of …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration July 21, 2022 The Willa Cather Childhood Home is a national treasure, one of … 30-minute narrated tour of the Willa Cather Childhood Home. About the Willa Cather Childhood Home Opened in 1967 and …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… November of 2021, urged on by a recommendation of the Nebraska Arts Council, Betty exhibited forty mixed media … Walker Gallery in the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, Nebraska. Her exhibit The Ties That Bind is currently on … was a Cooper Foundation Award winning teacher, the 1993 Nebraska Teacher of the Year, and a Disney Award Teacher. …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Virtual Author Series: David McKay Powell

… our online bookstore— Funding was provided by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. About David McKay Powell David …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Novels

… to contribute a lesson plan or activity based on teaching Willa Cather in your classroom, please contact director of … so far—he, who was so afraid of being fooled!" Willa Cather Review , Vol. 63.2 Summer 2022 Telling War Stories: The …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones

… stays. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the buildings will become a mixed-use facility, including gallery and exhibit areas and space for historic site tours …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Potter Block Ceremonial Groundbreaking

… will help achieve tourism development and downtown revitalization goals by rehabilitating the Potter Block building, … Community Fund), Todd Mahin (Red Cloud Hotel Committee), Liz Rasser (Heritage Tourism Advisory Committee), Todd Brown …
Posted:
Last Updated:

The Bel Canto Duo: Four Cather Tableaux

… Image Opera House Saturday, Jun 3, 2023 | 7:30 - 9pm Red Cloud … Reserve Tickets The Bel Canto Duo's performance of Four Cather Tableaux will include original compositions inspired by passages from Willa Cather's A Lost Lady , "Nebraska: The End of the First …
Posted:
Last Updated: