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… by Silas Garber, prototype for Captain Forrester in A Lost Lady the Burlington Depot , which appears throughout … guesthouse for Red Cloud visitors. Image Former First Lady Laura Bush Visits the Cather Prairie The National …
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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
… Image Image Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections February 25, 2022 The installation of the … is a smaller local exhibition of materials pulled from the collections of the National Willa Cather Center and the … her travels and the sites from home. We’d like to have our collections (at both the National Willa Cather Center and …
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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, … and Ardis James Foundation also makes annual gifts to support operation of the National Willa Cather Center — a …
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Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”
… in Greenwich Village. I enjoyed creating the cityscape of New York which Eden sees through her apartment window when … read Alex Ross's "A Walk in Willa Cather's Prairie" in The New Yorker . I had always thought the images in Cather's …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… Image Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson December 8, … Willa Cather Center in particular and what motivated you to become members of the Willa Cather Foundation? The Center does an …
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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
… exhibit, Beauty in the Ordinary , at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery (from August 9 - September 30, 2019). We … brought you to Red Cloud this summer? A few years ago I visited New Mexico, attracted by the sights and the setting …
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