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Jorn Olsen Photography

… Mar 16, 2015 | 12am - Sunday, May 3, 2015 | 12am Red Cloud Opera House Gallery 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE … to the vivid colors of an autumn sunset over the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, Olsen creates magnificent images of … May 2 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. prior to a production of Catherland:The Musical at the Red Cloud Opera House. …
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2013 Spring Conference

… while." These words ring as true today as they did the day Cather penned them, 100 years ago. Our spring conference … Broken Heart , and filmmaker Charles Fairbanks will talk about how Cather's novel and the Great Plains have inspired … will serve dinner on the Cather Prairie. 58th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference "Fortunate Country": O …
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Bladen

… founder of the Lincoln State Journal and friend of Willa Cather, the town of Bladen boasts the home of G.P. Cather and his wife and the Bladen Opera House, where Anna Pavelka was such a regular customer …
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Small Town Big Dreams

… Small Town Big Dreams March 3, 2010 "On my way East I broke my journey at Hastings, in Nebraska, and set off with an … farm. At a little past midday, I knew I must be nearing my destination. Set back on a swell of land at my right, I …
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Joy

… 6, 2008 I have said before that the Middle Ground of the Cather Foundation is indeed broad reaching out from its … joy or, Joy with a capital J. To be precise, I want to talk about Steve Joy, a British artist whose work will be … Cloud Opera House Gallery in June, as a part of the annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, scheduled for June 5-6-7. …
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Photography Contest

… Image Photography Contest December 1, 2008 Today the Willa Cather Foundation is delighted to announce its involvement … a viewer's choice award. The Cather Foundation is excited about the traffic this exhibit will bring through our little …
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Spring Conference 2009: A Story of a Photograph

… I came across one image that I liked very much. In it, Willa Cather is holding a small baby, her niece Helen Louise … photograph-so enriched by the visit to Red Cloud. It came about not because I was seeking information, but simply …
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Elderhostel

… :  Orientation Lectures and Class discussion : Novels:  My Ántonia, A Lost Lady , Death Comes for the Archbishop …
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Reflections from the Prairie Writers' Workshop by Timothy Schaffert

… Writers' Workshop by Timothy Schaffert July 24, 2009 Willa Cather taught in a writers' workshop in  1922, at Middlebury … her students saluted her with a witless poem: "Oh Miss Cather, when we gather/ For your talks so wise and clear/ … the many images and emotions evoked in the gallery of the Opera House those evenings have stayed with me beyond Red …
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Road Scholar Program: June 4-8, 2012

… Scholar Program: June 4-8, 2012 March 6, 2012 The Willa Cather Foundation and Road Scholar are proud to invite you … and understanding of the life and works of Willa Cather, we would like to offer you, as committed learners, … Experience the thrill of a live performance in the Opera House just as Willa Cather did in her time. Discover …
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