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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist
… true. Every so often, this quote makes the rounds on social media, and no matter how much I wish Cather had said it, I … O'Keeffe? Many readers of Cather's work and her biography immediately connect her with Georgia O'Keeffe—with good …
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Virtual Author Series: Joanna Biggs, Richard Scott Larson, and Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
… near a local penitentiary. Tensions emerge as the community learns more about this child and her connection to long-held … was published in May, 2023. (Photo credit: Hillery Stone) Learn more about Joanna Biggs Richard Scott Larson Featured … will be released in the fall of 2025. Her three previous collections of short fiction are What We Do With the …
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Meet Our 2025 Humanities Interns!
… July 3, 2025 The Humanities Internship at the National Willa Cather Center offers an experiential learning opportunity … my knowledge of Nebraska history. I have always loved living in Nebraska, and I want to learn as much as I can …
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Ollie Webb Center's Short Film Screening & Panel Discussion
… Friday, Jun 6, 2025 | 10:30 - 11:30am CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 … from My Ántonia . This film chronicles the difficulties living through Nebraska winters in the 19th century. Made in …
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Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up
… [today]. (Yarrow 14) Everyday examples of thrifty living in the 1880s are easy to find, and in our … education and entertainment for both children and adults. Willa Cather created several of these using advertising cards and …
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Red Cloud Opera House
… Image Image Image Image Red Cloud Opera House When I go about among little Nebraska towns, the thing I miss most is the Opera House." —Willa Cather, Personal Interview Built in 1885, the Red Cloud … to set the mood, scene, and tone of the 1890s, when Willa Cather and her friends eagerly anticipated the arrival of …
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Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts
… 2025 January 6, 2025, marks another important centenary in Willa Cather's career: the opening of the feature film adaptation … of Czechoslovakia, that she had recently taken "the living 'Antonia' and six of her many fine children to the …
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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Marlena Myles
… Copyrights to the Dakota/Lakota Language” at the National Willa Cather Center’s Red Cloud Opera House exhibit from November … to create books that show us in the present rather than living in the past.” Contemporary works As a pop artist, …
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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Dustin Mater
… of Fame: An Exhibition of Native Pop Art at the National Willa Cather Center’s Red Cloud Opera House Gallery. At the show, … perspective. “It feels awesome.” Mater says. “We’re a living, breathing people. We’re all alive and it’s the song …
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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory
… from photographs—or both? I do both. Sometimes a photo is involved but I may add some remembered things which could be … or stenciling with no end in mind. Something usually will get my imagination going and in the end it actually is a … nothing was told to me and my imagination put the story together. Hopefully I tell the story in the way the painting …
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