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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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"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 …
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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 …
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