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Music on the Prairie

… Image Music on the Prairie May 16, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice … Place-Based Identity: A creative-nonfiction workshop focused on connections between self and place With … Artist-in-residency June 2-5, 2011 The 4th annual Prairie Writers’ Workshop will provide participants with the rare …
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60th Annual Spring Conference to be held in Red Cloud

… 5-7, 2015, celebrating groundbreaking of the National Willa Cather Center, the Willa Cather Foundation’s 60th year, and … will also feature papers and panel discussions; guided town and country tours; an evening wildflower walk on the Cather Prairie; the …
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Writers Group Makes Its Way to Red Cloud

… Journey of Thirteen Bereaved Mothers took in all that Cather country has to offer, including tours , a weeklong stay at our historic lodging properties , … Julie Hester characterized Red Cloud as a “Scrappy town on the prairie/carved out of sod and bittersweet.” We’d …
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Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… online web landing page, brainstorming future social media content, and helping other employees with various tasks like … at local writing centers and other multicultural settings. After graduation, I have dreams of teaching …
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Leroy Maruhn - Our Miriam Mountford Volunteer of the Year

… mother and works as a tour guide at the National Willa Cather Center. Jen Schriner de Jager, on our facilities … a volunteer, and with his tractor he tills gardens around town. Here at the National Willa Cather Center, Leroy has … alongside founder Mildred Bennett, devised the first guided tours of Red Cloud and Catherland and was first editor of …
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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 five days engaged in a special program planned through the National Willa Cather Center. With a well-planned itinerary offered …
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Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012

… Workshop: May 17-20, 2012 October 26, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the … she knew best, she turned for inspiration to the Nebraska prairie that affected her youth. Each year, the Willa Cather Foundation is pleased to host a Prairie Writers' Workshop for beginning, aspiring, or experienced …
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Elderhostel

… Image Elderhostel March 25, 2009 Red Cloud:  Willa Cather's Window to the World June 15-19, 2009 Hosting the nation's largest living memorial to an American author, the Willa Cather …
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"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"

… Comes for the Archbishop Cookbooks (The Cather Foundation Archives contains the Cather family collection of … Comes for the Archbishop Cookbooks (The Cather Foundation Archives contains the Cather family collection of …
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