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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… access to the museum's galleries and gardens. Walk-ins welcome as space permits. Presented in partnership with … Virginia, contact Ann Romines at annrom3@verizon.net About Willa Cather's Virginia Willa Cather’s Virginia is … place: its resources, issues, and stories—past and future. About the Birthplace …
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Hotel Garber Construction Expands and Advances

… close-to-home vacations growing, and the gratification of supporting rural communities, we are on the cusp of … hotel in Red Cloud has been a priority for the Willa Cather Foundation and other community leaders for many years. The … downtown revitalization project was also made possible with support from the State of Nebraska - Department of Economic …
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IMLS Grant Awarded for $250,000

… in 2020 Image The interior of the historic station has many artifacts related to the rail industry IMLS Grant Awarded … for exhibitions, educational/interpretive programs, digital learning resources, professional development, community … debate and dialogue, audience-focused studies, and/or collections management, curation, care, and conservation. In …
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"Books Old and New"

… as Willa Cather always did—and that the Willa Cather Foundation continues to do in her name.  "Cather and the … day as they are the reason for our mission—which you can support in many ways, including a browse in our National …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s … growing number of people world-wide,” Camp said. “I offered my support for Willa Cather’s statue because reading her … novels and stories in the late 1990s changed the course of my life. The opportunity to support a work of art in …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour … On December 7, Cather’s 150th birthday will be fêted with guided holiday tours—including of the Childhood Home—and a …
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Premiere of Willa Cather: Breaking the Mold

… Conference Thursday, Jun 6, 2024 | 7 - 8pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster St. Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … the film’s development: Littleton Alston is Professor of Sculpture at Creighton University, the recipient of numerous …
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Own A Piece of History: Willa Cather Sculpture

… Image Image Image Littleton Alston with his statue of Willa Cather at the U.S. Capitol—June 7, 2023 Own A Piece of … by the artist. Cather is portrayed hiking through the open prairie with a walking stick, wearing a brimmed hat and … a piece in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Read more about—and view—the June 7, 2023 unveiling ceremony at the …
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Red Cloud Opera House

… every word of those posters; the names of the plays and the nights on which each would be given. After we had decided … could prevail upon our parents. Would they let us go every night, or only on opening and closing nights?" "How good … a $275,000 challenge grant for the Opera House in December 2001, which the Foundation matched three-to-one and …
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Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined

… the older cultures of the continent's indigenous people. Support for this exhibit at the National Willa Cather Center … with a grant from the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation and support from the Claire M. Hubbard Foundation. Image Art …
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