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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

… Image Music on the Prairie May 16, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the world she knew best, she turned for …
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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

… archives. The Humanities Internship at the National Willa Cather Center is funded through a collaboration between the … special projects behind the scenes. I am trained to give tours, and interacting with guests and helping them utilize … walking with my grandparents). They lived in the small town of West Point, so I was already familiar with small …
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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

… engaged in a special program planned through the National Willa Cather Center. With a well-planned itinerary offered through … the opportunity to experience her writings and learn more about her life in the setting that so greatly influenced her …
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Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012

… Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012 October 26, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the world she knew best, she turned for …
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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 … Rosicky," "Peter" Group Field trips : Country and town tours of Cather- related historic sites …
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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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