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Organization History
… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group of … used by scholars as a valuable source work for Cather’s early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small … museum, reflecting the settings for six of Cather’s twelve novels and many of her short stories. For the first …
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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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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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Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections
… Collections February 25, 2022 The installation of the Crossroads exhibit, from the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main … exhibit that I’m sure our guests will enjoy. Alongside the Crossroads exhibit though is a smaller local exhibition of … in letters to her Red Cloud acquaintances, she wrote about events like those depicted in the exhibit—business openings …
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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
… Image Robert and Ardis James Foundation Donates $250,000 for NWCC Endowment February 19, 2021 … enthusiasts from across the country who visit the National Willa Cather Center can look forward to new experiences—in …
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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
… each of our historic sites , had a tour of our Special Collections & Archives, and visited the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. … offers one the opportunity to experience her writings and learn more about her life in the setting that so greatly …
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2019 Artist-in-Residence, Richard Dickson, On What Inspires His Rural Photography
… photographer, has been in residence with the National Willa Cather Center since early July to photograph the landscapes and buildings in and … the Archbishop . The scenes and people she has set in the novels based around Red Cloud also gave me an urge to see …
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