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… after Cather’s death, Bennett became fascinated by people, events, and historic sites in and around Red Cloud and … interested individuals, and scholars from throughout Nebraska to form the WCF’s Board of Governors. The group … and developed viewing guides. It remains a key element of interpreting Cather’s prairie-based works. The Foundation …
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Plain Views: Pastel and Photography
… women and children seek to portray the stark existence of early Nebraska settlers as well as reveal the deep-rooted … of these Nebraska settlers are echoed in the enduring novels of Willa Cather. Cather observed in O Pioneers! , “We come and go, …
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Catherland by Shane Booth
… fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.” – Willa Cather Using his 1867 studio camera and Voightlander lens to … Willa Cather grew up, and where she based several of her novels describing life on the prairie in the early 19th century. My photographs evoke a sense of place, …
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Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections
… installed in the past few days. Large, nationally-touring exhibitions like this one always create a flurry of …
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Meet our 2022 Summer Humanities Interns!
… Interns! June 15, 2022 This summer, the National Willa Cather Center, with support from the Nebraska Cather … our interns create will cover topics related to Cather’s novels, as well as sculptor and Creighton University … 2022. His favorite area of history is European medieval and early modern history, and he looks forward to learning and …
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Robert and Ardis James Foundation Donates $250,000 for NWCC Endowment
… from across the country who visit the National Willa Cather Center can look forward to new experiences—in … by his mother, Ardis, who gifted him a full set of Cather’s novels for Christmas when he was sixteen. He has read all of … My Ántonia , which is undergoing a full restoration to its early 1900s condition as part of the campaign. In addition …
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Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”
… Shadow — Paintings Inspired by the Art and Life of Willa Cather is showing at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery … and mused about painting some of them when I reread her novels. Ross's article was the impetus for this project. … a PhD in English Literature at the University of Chicago. Early on, I found James E. Miller, Jr., professor of …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… has retired from a career in education law. Both avid Willa Cather enthusiasts, the Andersons have traveled to various … settings around North America that appear in Willa Cather’s novels. They recently spent time in Red Cloud where they … site, so we could picture the place where much of the early part of My Àntonia takes place. That was really fun, …
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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud
… Tracy Tucker, Education Director: ttucker@willacather.org Rachel Olsen, Education Specialist: rolsen@willacather.org …
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2019 Artist-in-Residence, Richard Dickson, On What Inspires His Rural Photography
… Does it make it even more appealing to photograph or document? I’m not connected with farms in England so would …
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