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Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead
… A new permanent exhibit "We turned to leave the cave; Ántonia and I went up the stairs first, and the children … cave into the sunlight. It made me dizzy for a moment." - My Ántonia Image Located in rural Webster County, near … welcome reception. Commemorative exhibit bookmark. Set of notecards featuring illustrations by Władysław T. Benda …
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NWCC Launches NEH-Funded Digital Projects
… tools has been on our list of goals for years," said Tracy Tucker, education director and archivist at the National … digital learning." With few guests onsite in Red Cloud, Tucker and education coordinator Rachel Olsen were able to …
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Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts
… the first of her works to be made into a movie, and a 1934 film of the same name was to be the last in Cather's … you can get a very high price for the film rights of "The Song of the Lark" I'll consent to the sale," she wrote to her editor …
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Abbi Detlefsen
… Education & Program Associate Abbi joined the National Willa Cather Center staff as a tour guide in 2024 and was promoted … for studying historical events and people that she learned about from her father and grandfather. …
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2024 Year-End Fundraising Campaign
… and heritage tourism destination, Red Cloud was named as one of Smithsonian Magazine’s Top 15 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2023. The rehabilitation of the …
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Guided Seasonal Tour
… Image Guided Seasonal Tour Ántonia's Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by … The novel is set in Black Hawk, Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of Red Cloud. … and plan to follow a tour guide from site to site. Tours last approximately 90 minutes. Book This Tour Adults: …
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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 … Carrie, when I confide to you that I would rather go home to Red Cloud than to any of the beautiful cities in … While Willa Cather only spent the second half of her childhood in Red Cloud, she returned often to visit family …
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'My Ántonia' Holiday Tour
… Saturday, Dec 28, 2024 | 1 - 2:30pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 … throughout December we will be offering guided holiday tours on Saturdays, beginning with December 7, which is also Willa Cather’s birthday! This year’s tour will specifically focus …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia
… by the difficulties and the beauties of the world they must contend with. It is also true, though, that we read … remains a revelation.” — Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley About My Ántonia When critic Randolph Bourne heralded My … Adolph Hitler’s bathtub at the close of World War II. When Mildred Bennett began work on the Willa Cather Pioneer …
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The National Endowment for the Arts Big Read: My Ántonia
… Events Friday, Oct 4, 2024 | All day CT the National Willa Cather Center 425 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … but registration is required for the seasonal guided tours shown in bold. Senior citizen and student pricing is available for the tour. Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by …
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