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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
… Image Image Image Image Image Art Gallery Saturday, Sep 4, 2021 | 12am - Saturday, Oct 30, … view of Central Nebraska through portraiture and picture in Plain Views: Pastel and Photography . Based on the homestead …
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Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections
… materials pulled from the collections of the National Willa Cather Center and the Webster County Historical Museum. Our … materials that were central to our understanding of early Red Cloud and Willa Cather’s adolescence here, as well … as her use of prototypes and historical settings in her novels; many of the photos and memorabilia on display were …
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Meet our 2022 Summer Humanities Interns!
… Humanities Interns! June 15, 2022 This summer, the National Willa Cather Center, with support from the Nebraska Cather … to become an English professor. She enjoys literature and writing and was a peer mentor in exploratory studies at UNO, …
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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.”
… Image Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.” May 19, 2021 We recently … showing at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery through June 30 and will be featured in our 66th annual Willa Cather … and her elegiac sense of life. The first work I read was My Ántonia and the line about the “. . . precious, …
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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
… Image Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud October 25, 2019 In early October 2019, sixteen Road Scholars spent an immersive … in a special program planned through the National Willa Cather Center. With a well-planned itinerary offered through … group in lively discussions on several of Willa Cather’s novels, while noted Cather scholars Chuck Peek, Andrew …
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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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