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A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… reveals more about Red Cloud’s own special artist's musical interests, highlights of her career, and the origins … on a Fulbright and then to Vienna, where she first read Willa Cather’s novel,  The Song of the Lark .  “That is when … else that you’d like to add? Kate Quinn, a popular historic fiction writer, was my student at Boston University from her …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Youth and the Bright Medusa

… Image Youth and the Bright Medusa Book Club Resources Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920) is a collection of eight short stories by the prolific Willa Cather. Four of the pieces contained in this collection were … The stories also take a hard glance at youth and time. Set largely in urban areas, this collection has a distinctly …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 08/02/2023

Music in Willa Cather's Writing

… Image Music in Willa Cather's Writing While not a musician herself, Willa Cather was an avid musical consumer! … herself as she is growing up in Moonstone, Colorado, a fictional community based on Cather’s hometown of Red Cloud, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/09/2023

Dr. Melissa J. Homestead in Conversation with Alex Ross

… Friday, Mar 26, 2021 | 7 - 8:30pm Special Preview Event The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith …
Posted: 02/03/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Annotations From the Archive: Soldiers' Letters

… October 30, 2022 We conclude a year of reflection on Willa Cather's 1922 novel One of Ours by highlighting the letters … to work on telling her cousin's story. My Ántonia was set to be published in September of that year, and … Ferris Greenslet, that she is at work on not one, but two books. One of those was a return to the Blue Mesa story, …
Posted: 09/16/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… and culture programming that is hard to come by in rural Nebraska, and I think Cather herself would appreciate our …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/07/2023

Auditions for "Burning Barn"

… AUDITIONS for BURNING BARN by A.P. Andrews Part II of The Nebraska Cycle Monday and Tuesday, June 13-14 7-9 pm … mood-altering, ever-changing backdrop of the rural Nebraska countryside, Burning Barn is a study of family, of … The Nebraska Cycle THE NEBRASKA CYCLE is a ten play cycle …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

Big Plans for the Publication Centenary of My Ántonia in 2018

… Centenary of My Ántonia in 2018 December 20, 2017 The Willa Cather Foundation is gearing up for a year-long celebration … Tracy Tucker says. “We’d love to see people read the book again during the centenary year and explore the many … and teaching strategies. Teachers who lack classroom sets of My Ántonia are especially encouraged to contact us. …
Posted: 12/20/2017
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

"A Lost Lady" Published in Brazil in Portuguese

… mainly around the flora, names of plants, because Nebraska is so represented in Cather’s work and, well, … different plants. So, some of the, say, flowers you have in Nebraska, we don’t have them here, or sometimes I would only …
Posted: 07/01/2019
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”

… of young lovers. The struggle of artists. Have you been to Nebraska or the Great Plains before? I was last in Red Cloud …
Posted: 05/19/2021
Last Updated: 07/07/2021

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