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Annotations From the Archives: Christmas in Red Cloud
… Annotations From the Archives: Christmas in Red Cloud December 10, 2024 In Webster County during Willa Cather’s … of Red Cloud, held an annual supper and dance on Christmas night. The Red Cloud volunteer fire department also gave a … forget and cease to love, but her childhood is eternal. (December 17, 1893) Later, this memory would fuel the ending …
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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Marlena Myles
… Myles November 18, 2021 Marlena Myles teaches people about Indigenous history through art, records stories in … to rectify the past by restoring the area back to a Native prairie. She says she hopes the installation will bring a … to the Dakota/Lakota Language” at the National Willa Cather Center’s Red Cloud Opera House exhibit from November …
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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory
… from photographs—or both? I do both. Sometimes a photo is involved but I may add some remembered things which could be … or stenciling with no end in mind. Something usually will get my imagination going and in the end it actually is a … nothing was told to me and my imagination put the story together. Hopefully I tell the story in the way the painting …
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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!
… Several sites will be decorated for the season with select readings from the novel. BOOK A HOLIDAY TOUR Stay in our … all seasons. LEARN MORE TOUR WITH OUR MASTER NATURALIST Big Read of My Ántonia Programs offered through June 2025 … by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for their 2024 Big Read initiative. Through grant funding, we have …
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Finding Aids
… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Rock Willa Cather 1931 Book BK-207-033 Willa Cather in Europe: Her Own Story of the First Journey Willa Cather 1956 …
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Join Our Team
… Job Title: Bookstore Associate Classification: Nonexempt Reports To: Director of Education and Engagement Status: … our guestbook as well as complete a satisfaction survey about their experience Answer the phone when the Visitors … the owners of the hotel by achieving the objectives of the annual budget. The GM will be responsible for marketing the …
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Nick Powers, Our On-Staff Nebraska Master Naturalist
… Image Our guided Prairie Tour will have new enhancements thanks to Nick's … or the University of Nebraska. Nick has been with the Willa Cather Foundation since January 2022 and is currently … to get better at the Prairie Tour, particularly talking about the plants and animals that live on the prairie. I …
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Meet our 2024 Humanities Interns!
… they were chosen when Rachel Olsen called with the good news! Since arriving in Red Cloud, Sarah has been a very …
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Beneath the Wide-Open
… the energy, form, and grandeur of the Midwestern sky Art Gallery Tuesday, Mar 19 - Saturday, May 11, 2024 | All day … sky was as full of motion and change as the desert beneath it was monotonous and still, — and there was so much sky, … this spring! Goodding's paintings capture the energy and wonder of the ever-changing Great Plains sky. With vigorous …
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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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