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Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns!
… Image Nolan Bennett Image Lucy Koenig Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns! Spending their summers with us in … novels to seven, after first being introduced through O Pioneers! He came to the internship upon the recommendation …
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Event Archives
… Art Gallery Author Series International Seminar Opera House Prairie Writers Special Events Spring Conference Image MCT … Children's Theatre, Red Riding Hood. Reserve Tickets Learn More Image MCT Red Riding Hood Missoula Children's … Learn More Image The prairie landscape inspired Cather's Nebraska novels and helped to forge many of her …
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Virtual Author Series: Pam Houston
… | 7pm Transport yourself to the Colorado Rockies, Nebraska prairie, and beyond during our conversation with author Pam … of place-based writing and her connections to Willa Cather, both as a writing professor and a fan. Register for the event here. Learn more about Deep Creek on our product page : the …
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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen
… she is not getting to know visitors or working on educator resources, Rachel enjoys volunteering and spending time with … responded to the pandemic by embracing virtual programs and resources because it gave me a chance to learn new things. I … last year, and it was so much fun! There aren’t a lot of professional development programs for K-12 teachers that …
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What We're Grateful For: Staff Reflections
… Reflections November 22, 2022 Some of our National Willa Cather Center staff reflect upon what they're grateful for … our natural spaces, a commitment to education and lifelong learning, and appreciation for the arts. I am grateful for … among people who celebrate the beauty of nature and the prairie. I feel I am learning about the pioneer spirit, and …
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Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker
… 30, 2022 Although Tracy Tucker has been with the Willa Cather Foundation for a decade as Director of Education, she … & Curation as part of an internal restructuring. Learn more about Tracy and her new role—and what this means … diverse interests, talents, and work backgrounds, such as prairie botany and gardening skills, photography and graphic …
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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.”
… and Shadow — Paintings Inspired by the Art and Life of Willa Cather is showing at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery … Cather and one of her favorite divas, Lillian Nordica. In a review of Wagner's Lohengrin and Die Walküre in the Lincoln …
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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 … to enhance your class’s experience reading Willa Cather or learning about Nebraska history." This year, our touring … important scholarship programs each year: Several student scholarships , with different requirements and deadlines, …
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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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