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O Pioneers!
… Rhonda Seacrest Tour Nebraska Opera Fund, with additional support from the Glenn Korff School of Music, Hixson-Lied … with The Lied Center’s Arts Across Nebraska with support from Friends of Lied; The Nebraska Arts Council and … The Richard P. Kimmel & Laurine Kimmel Charitable Foundation. This event is also supported by the Nebraska …
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Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience
… to make history come alive for people.” This work of the Foundation is of vital importance to Loomis, who allocated a … project, and then joined the Cather Legacy Society to support future maintenance at the site through a planned … Legacy Society , or if you have named the Willa Cather Foundation as a beneficiary in your estate plans, please …
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Pavelka Farmstead
… My Ántonia . Pavelka worked as a hired girl, helping to support her family after they immigrated from Bohemia and … Review , published three times a year by the Willa Cather Foundation, and an article about the Pavelka Farmstead — …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration
… cedar shingle roof, gutters, and downspouts Repair of the foundation and reconstruction of window wells Retention of … to the interior and site exterior. Please consider supporting the project with a charitable gift. Pledges are … may also be made online . Thank You! This project is supported by a Save America’s Treasures grant administered …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones
… and underpinning prepared the Potter Block building to support the eventual return of a third floor that was lost … and Red Cloud Community Fund of the Nebraska Community Foundation. The Heritage Tourism Development Office was … of Omaha, Nebraska. How You Can Help Please consider supporting the project with a charitable gift. Naming and …
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Potter Block Ceremonial Groundbreaking
… was completed in 2020 prepared the historic building to support the return of a third floor that was lost to fire in … Fund (an affiliated fund of the Nebraska Community Foundation). Over $5 million in donations, grants, and … charitable gifts can be made to the Willa Cather Foundation or the Red Cloud Community Fund. Donations of any …
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2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees
… fan. The scholarship established by her ample bequest supports young women seeking higher education. Antonette … voluntary contributions by our Board of Governors to support a graduate of the local high school. Cather herself … Cather did. Scholarships awarded through the Willa Cather Foundation since 1987 total more than $200,000 and have …
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John William Boone & Cather
… the state university. Written before the Aeneid , a foundational text of all Western literature, the Georgics … into a new artform. This exhibit was developed with the support and assistance of: Humanities Nebraska John William Boone Heritage Foundation Missouri State Archives Nebraska State Historical …
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Press Room
… universal themes—and elevated them to a national and international readership (while also elevating Nebraska in … the annual Willa Cather Spring Conferences and biennial International Cather Seminars , which aim to foster appreciation and scholarship …
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Organization History
… early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small group of Red Cloud citizens, interested individuals, … Cather, great woman, great literary artist, who once was one of ours and now belongs to the great world and to time, … Sites and the collection became known as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection. The Foundation later assumed …
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