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Unseen & Underfoot: The Hidden Diversity of the Plains
… science exhibition in the West Atrium Art Gallery Monday, Mar 17 - Saturday, May 17, 2025 | All day The beauty and … part of the Tom Powers lab for more than twenty years, primarily working with the micrograph images. Many of the …
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Author Series & Book Signing: Karen Russell
… Friday, Apr 4, 2025 | 7 - 8:30pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … in the aftermath of Black Sunday, The Antidote follows a "Prairie Witch,” whose body serves as a bank vault for … peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; …
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Virtual Author Series: Jim Locklear
… Image In the Country of the Kaw Author Series Thursday, Mar 13, 2025 | 7 - 8pm CT Register Online Now Prepare for …
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2024 Year-End Fundraising Campaign
… OUR GOAL! Image Donors and friends celebrate the Willa Cather Childhood Home dedication in June 2024. DONATE TODAY … no more than open and glance at them. He had no curiosity about what men had thought; but about what they had felt and lived. – Willa Cather, A Lost Lady In Willa Cather’s novel A Lost Lady , …
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My Ántonia: The Story of a Great American Novel
… and a novel that is part of today’s literary canon, My Ántonia’s worldwide appeal is demonstrated by its … served as the organization’s Executive Director since 2014. Olson administers the museum, arts center, ten historic …
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Annotations From the Archives: Christmas in Red Cloud
… December 10, 2024 In Webster County during Willa Cather’s childhood, Christmas traditions differed from our modern … of the county’s citizens. While Cather was a child, many holiday celebrations were community-focused. The county’s … along with ideas for decorating them with bells, Christmas cards, toys, and fruit.) In Red Cloud and Guide Rock, clubs …
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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Marlena Myles
… experience that will guide people through the sacred lands at Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary and Indian Mounds … the U.S. government forced Indigenous people off their lands, destroyed burial mounds and built a railroad over the … to rectify the past by restoring the area back to a Native prairie. She says she hopes the installation will bring a …
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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory
… in this county. Thank you to everyone at the National Willa Cather Center for allowing me to show my art in the town … much of my growing up years" —Karen Thurlow Tell us a bit about your relationship to Webster County and your family … I attended school at Batin (the little tin schoolhouse) and Prairie Gem until I completed the eighth grade and then went …
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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!
… Image The Burlington Depot is on several guided tours, including our new My Ántonia tour. Visit Red Cloud … cities in Europe where I used to love to go . . ." -Willa Cather in a letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood While Willa Cather only spent the second half of her childhood in Red …
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Nick Powers, Our On-Staff Nebraska Master Naturalist
… Image Nick Powers, Visitor Services Coordinator and Nebraska Master Naturalist Nick Powers, Our On-Staff Nebraska Master Naturalist Take a Guided Prairie Tour August … and expert guide, Nick Powers, recently completed the Nebraska Master Naturalist Program , a week-long course of …
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