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Willa Cather: Life & Literature
… Image Willa Cather, 9, taken in Virginia before moving to Nebraska Image Special presentation by Ashley Olson Special … special presentation by Ashley Olson, executive director of Nebraska’s National Willa Cather Center. In her discussion … years in Frederick County, Virginia, and formative years in Nebraska influenced the novels Sapphira and the Slave Girl …
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O Pioneers!
… Image © Tracy Sanford Tucker for the National Willa Cather Center A University of Nebraska-Lincoln Opera Opera … Coordinator Nick Powers at npowers@willacather.org about accessibility accommodations. …
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Annotations from the Archives: American Archives Month
… Our summer interns come to us from across the University of Nebraska system, and the internships are made possible through the Nebraska Cather Collaborative, a group comprised of representatives from the NWCC, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Cather Project and Willa Cather Archive. …
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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes
… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the Willa … come and go, but the land is always here...” —O Pioneers! Visit Red Cloud and immerse yourself in the prairie settings …
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Pavelka Farmstead
… Highway 4 near Bladen. Restored and managed by the National Willa Cather Center, the Pavelka Farmstead was chosen as one of … themed and downloadable digital issues of the Willa Cather Review , published three times a year by the Willa Cather …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… to Canada and the southwest for Shadows on the Rock and Death Comes for the Archbishop . Upon graduation from the University of …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson
… Sarah Arneson Red Cloud’s Very Own Operatic Soprano August 15, 2023 Sarah Arneson was born and raised in Red Cloud and … later won a medal in an Austrian shooting competition. “My parents worked and saved so that I could go to college … “Songs my Mother Taught Me” — Czech immigrants as in My Ántonia and Mr. Schimerda was a violinist in the Prague …
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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 …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration
… one of only twenty-two National Historic Landmarks in Nebraska and the site most closely associated with the life … site opened to visitors in 1967 and was later gifted to the Nebraska State Historical Society in 1978. The … the ages of ten to sixteen. While she moved away from Nebraska in 1896, her parents Charles and Mary Virginia …
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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. …
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