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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen
… January 15, 2023 Rachel Olsen has been part of the Willa Cather Foundation staff since 2017, when she was hired as a … the Willa Cather Foundation since 2017. How did your skill set prepare you for your work here, and were you always a … traveling, making playlists, and cooking. If I can swing a book or two outside of my reading load for work, so much the …
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What We're Grateful For: Staff Reflections
… Staff Reflections November 22, 2022 Some of our National Willa Cather Center staff reflect upon what they're grateful for … — Jen Schriner, Facilities Assistant I am grateful to be living in Red Cloud, and working among people who celebrate …
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Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker
… October 30, 2022 Although Tracy Tucker has been with the Willa Cather Foundation for a decade as Director of Education, she … I would love to know more about she and Lewis’s day-to-day living: Willa Cather’s wine journal or a list of the books …
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Planning Underway for Hotel Garber
… Potter-Wright building next door to the Willa Cather Foundation’s Farmers and Merchants Bank, the hotel will be … the Red Cloud Community Fund of the Nebraska Community Foundation, the City of Red Cloud, the Chamber of Commerce, … donations and equity investments. To learn more or to help support the project, please contact Executive Director, …
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Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”
… Shadow — Paintings Inspired by the Art and Life of Willa Cather is showing at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery … What brought you to Willa Cather and what was the first book of hers that you read? Any favorites? In 1970, my path … colors. The pathos and juxtaposition of the vast prairie set against the bodies of young lovers. The struggle of …
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Autumn Offerings for Educators
… energized to create new and increased ways to deliver our resources to our constituents—and for which we have received … them. "I want visitors to feel the impact of what they learn here, even if they can't actually be here," Rachel … this website) Updates of mini-lessons and activities on our Educational Resources page To students and educators we …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… who was on her way to the National Willa Cather Center to install her amazing exhibit on native grasses . Her work …
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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud
… staff to help shape your ideal group tour experience: Tracy Tucker, Education Director: ttucker@willacather.org Rachel Olsen, Education Specialist: …
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2019 Artist-in-Residence, Richard Dickson, On What Inspires His Rural Photography
… photographer, has been in residence with the National Willa Cather Center since early July to photograph the landscapes … matched the scenes I saw and recorded perfectly. So I learned about Cather and sought out her other works, … and imagine what it was like in those days. The land, the prairie, the vegetation and isolated homesteads, and the …
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Turn the Page Literary Tour
… Image Turn the Page Literary Tour July 3, 2013 The Willa Cather State Historic Site/Red Cloud Opera House is one of … House Hiking and bird watching at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Lodging in the historic Cather Second Home guest … and Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in Grand Island. To learn more about this year's Nebraska Passport, visit …
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