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Visit

… Visit Visit the Museum No study of Cather is complete without a trip to Red Cloud. The National Willa Cather Center is a wonderful museum and archival … real people speaking the lines can give us that feeling of living along with them, of participating in their …
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Organization History

… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group … intertwined with Cather’s fictional worlds. Bennett’s 1951 biography  The World of Willa Cather  is still widely used by scholars as a valuable …
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The Art Connection

… to teach him how to use it. He's been taking professional photographs ever since. His dedication to the preservation …
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Garan Coons, Native American Entertainer

… tours extensively, delivering a spectacular display of living Native American culture. His exquisite regalia and … TO WEATHER ...Coons will first perform at 10:00 a.m. at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. Please join us tonight at the Opera …
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Crossroads: Change in Rural America

… have teamed up to exhibit some rarely seen objects and photographs from our collections as we look at "Our Changing …
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Artist Reception for Shane Booth and Book Talk with Alan Wilkinson

… United States Join us five miles south of Red Cloud at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie beginning at 9:30 AM as … on the Niobrara , which is based on the months he spent living in a remote Sandhills cabin. …
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CATHERLAND

… from the writing team of Becky Boesen and David von Kampen. CATHERLAND  tells the story of Susan, an emerging writer living the life of her dreams, complete with an adoring … to Red Cloud, Nebraska, the childhood home of novelist Willa Cather. Guided by her curiosity and the presence of a …
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Annotations from the Archive: Our Organizational History

… of 1957, Mildred Bennett and the founding members of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial felt that their work in Red Cloud … by the work of Willa Cather To provide for Willa Cather a living memorial in the form of art and literary scholarships …
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Annotations from the Archive: Herbaria of Webster County

… belonged and invent names of our own for them." When Willa Cather described her prairie childhood in "The Education You Have to Fight For," … collection was the personal botany book of Frances Smith Cather, Willa Cather's "Aunt Franc," and shows heavy use. …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions

… the essay, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," by Willa Cather [ The Nation , September 5, 1923] Thanksgiving, as … seems to have been especially meaningful to Willa Cather. She often visited family in Red Cloud at that time … teeming with buffalo, deer, antelope, wild geese, ducks, prairie chickens and quail. During the late summer a flock …
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