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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen
… for meeting visitors and students who come to Red Cloud to learn about Cather. What are the highlights of your job … programs and resources because it gave me a chance to learn new things. I learned some basic video production … to engaging activities, unparalleled access to our collections, and lively social time. What are your favorite …
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What We're Grateful For: Staff Reflections
… Image What We're Grateful For: Staff Reflections November 22, 2022 Some of our National … greeted by children at the grocery store or when I hear about how much fun a friend had at an opera house show, I am … Red Cloud and part of the talented team at the Willa Cather Foundation. I love being part of an organization that brings …
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Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker
… backgrounds, such as prairie botany and gardening skills, photography and graphic design, and you have worked as a … you remember that we were first called the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, and so a great many of Red Cloud’s oldest … keep things—her fan mail is a great example—but living in small New York spaces, keeping must have been hard. I think …
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Planning Underway for Hotel Garber
… the historic Potter-Wright building next door to the Willa Cather Foundation’s Farmers and Merchants Bank, the hotel … and historic sites, the town, the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie and other scenic places Cather loved. The design … both charitable donations and equity investments. To learn more or to help support the project, please contact …
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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 … loose, abstract images with the colors from the paintings I learned had been in the exhibit Cather saw. Golden Goddess … of 2017, I read Alex Ross's "A Walk in Willa Cather's Prairie" in The New Yorker . I had always thought the images …
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Autumn Offerings for Educators
… them. "I want visitors to feel the impact of what they learn here, even if they can't actually be here," Rachel … ready to enhance your class’s experience reading Willa Cather or learning about Nebraska history." This year, our … Coons will perform outside at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie and in the evening at the Red Cloud Opera House …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… has retired from a career in education law. Both avid Willa Cather enthusiasts, the Andersons have traveled to various … at a beautiful October sunset on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. You recently visited Red Cloud. What brought you … at cpond@WillaCather.org — she'd love to hear from you! To learn more about membership in the Willa Cather Foundation …
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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud
… Tracy Tucker, Education Director: ttucker@willacather.org Rachel Olsen, Education Specialist: rolsen@willacather.org …
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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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