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Remembering Our Fallen

… for a complete traveling schedule. The author Willa Cather, who gave her commencement speech from the Red Cloud … met him just on the edge of town, and we stopped to chat about the war news. I believe he always wanted to be a soldier. I can see …
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World-renowned Opera Soprano, Sarah Arneson, to perform in Red Cloud

… with the support of Aleck & Frances Arneson Family Farms, Rick and Barb Kudrna, Heritage Bank, the Nebraska Arts Council, the …
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Lynn R. Wolfe's Red Cloud Roots and a Century of Creation

… Image Image Image Lynn R. Wolfe's Red Cloud Roots and a Century of Creation August 4, … exhibition, click HERE . You can also view a virtual gallery HERE . Learn more about Lynn R. Wolfe’s prolific and …
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NEH Awards $50,000 Covid Relief Grant for Digitizing Collections

… reopen sites, facilities, and programs. The Willa Cather Foundation received $50,000 toward the ongoing tour … cultural and educational nonprofits to retain and rehire staff, maintain operations essential to their missions, and … proposals from around the nation. Additional information about the National Endowment for the Humanities and its …
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Lynn R. Wolfe: A Retrospective

… Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Art Gallery Wednesday, Jul 7, 2021 | 12am - Wednesday, Sep 1, … Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States The National Willa Cather Center is honored to remember the legacy of Red … acrylic sculpture. Thanks to the generosity of the Wolfe family, several of Wolfe's pieces are part of the permanent …
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WoW Celebrates Anniversary of The Song of the Lark

… Image WoW Celebrates Anniversary of The Song of the Lark July 14, 2015 The Willa Cather Foundation is celebrating the 100th …
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Spring Conference 2009: A Story of a Photograph

… of Nebraska-Lincoln Archives and Special Collections for a gallery exhibit at the Red Cloud Opera House, I came across one image that I liked very much. In it, Willa Cather is holding a small baby, her niece Helen Louise … here was a scene that understood Cather as part of a family, as an aunt playing with a baby, and not just as an …
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2014 Spring Conference Highlights

… opened Thursday with a day of scholarly presentations on Cather, her contemporaries, and the literary environment. We welcomed topics on not only Cather’s prairie landscape, but her urban and eastern landscapes, the … and pedagogy. Sue Maher, Tom Lynch, and John Price talked about their recent nonfiction publications related to …
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From Our Collection: Andrews Opera Co.

… importance of the Red Cloud Opera House to a young Willa Cather. In a 1929 letter to friend and journalist Harvey … ), but they sang all of these in English. According to a family story, Enrico Caruso himself was refused a place on … Currently on view now in the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery are some of the posters from the Andrews Opera …
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