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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 … so vividly described in works such as My Ántonia and O Pioneers!. “Music on the Cather Prairie” featuring Mike … 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

… 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 , … coordinator Rachel Olsen joined the writers at the Cather Second Home to lead a lively evening discussion of …
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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 … kid I thought of my Grandma and Grandpa’s house as a summer home. This house was bright yellow, on the paved part of a …
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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 … for the porch restoration project at the Cather Second Home. Leroy and Janet also dug up and saved the peonies at … 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 … of Webster County. It included stops at the George Cather home (now a bed and breakfast) and Pavelka Farmstead . They … 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 … will take place in Red Cloud, Nebraska; the childhood home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. Guided …
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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"

… supper based on Cather's Nebraska story, " The Bohemian Girl . " O Pioneers! and " The Bohemian Girl " will be the … as agriculture in other regions, as in Shadows on the Rock, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Death Comes for the Archbishop Cookbooks (The …
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