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Anna McCracken Educator Scholarship
… Scholarship To advance our educational mission, the Willa Cather Foundation created the Educator Scholarship in 2015. … Cather Foundation will also arrange complementary guided town and prairie tours for recipients. To apply for the Educator Scholarship, …
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Music on the Prairie
… the land that Cather so vividly described in works such as My Ántonia and O Pioneers!. “Music on the Cather Prairie” … at the Red Cloud Opera House on Sunday, June 5, at 3 p.m. Glover will read from her collection, and writers …
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60th Annual Spring Conference to be held in Red Cloud
… Image 60th Annual Spring Conference to be held in Red Cloud May 13, 2015 Nationally recognized historian Richard … and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. For more information, visit www.WillaCather.org or call toll-free 866-731-7304. …
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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
… in our archives. The Humanities Internship at the National Willa Cather Center is funded through a collaboration between the … of Red Cloud. For the past three years, I have been living in Lincoln while pursuing my bachelor’s degree at the …
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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
… in a special program planned through the National Willa Cather Center. With a well-planned itinerary offered through … heartland, the prairie, and one of its charming small towns—a step back in time with an amazing author center and … Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud! Our town and country tours, Willa Cather Memorial Prairie visit, and unique …
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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 … from a professional writer, the workshop incorporates tours of seven local historic sites relating to Cather's … Friday, May 18 9:30 & 11:00 a.m. or 1:30 & 3:00 p.m. Town tour of Cather historic sites 6:00-9:00 p.m. Writing …
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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"
… Image "Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing" July 23, 2009 The 2010 Willa Cather Spring … drink in Willa Cather's writing, based in Cather's "home town" of Red Cloud and the surrounding countryside. The … with Cather scholars, historians, and cooks; kitchen tours at Cather historic sites, with samplings of …
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