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Final Phase of Cather Center Construction Underway

… The Moon Block locally and The Duke Block in Cather’s The Song of the Lark , the fully restored building will become permanent …
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Save America's Treasures Grant Awarded for Restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood Home

… and Webster County. The Cather house is described in The Song of the Lark , “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best Years.” As the most …
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Mary Vaughan On Why She Joined the Cather Legacy Society

… little girl. Characters like Lucy and Thea Kronborg of The Song of the Lark shaped Mary’s aspiration to be an artist from a young …
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Artist Tim Youd on Typing Willa Cather in Red Cloud

… Image Artist Tim Youd on Typing Willa Cather in Red Cloud April 29, 2022 Los Angeles-based … April prairie winds—and a rare sweltering day while in the Childhood Home attic—as he has moved around to different … New Orleans. As to place, I've typed in some extraordinary locations—Faulkner's Rowan Oak, a Sing Sing prison tower, a …
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Tim Youd: Retyping Willa Cather

… three Cather novels in their entirety: O Pioneers !, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia . These will be the 72nd, 73rd and 74th … Youd will retype the significantly longer novel,  The Song of the Lark,  during his residency in Red Cloud between …
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Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”

… Light and Shadow — Paintings Inspired by the Art and Life of Willa Cather is showing at the Red Cloud Opera House … prairie, the Red Cloud Opera House, and the Willa Cather Childhood Home. What is your biggest takeaway from this … there is only the moment. . . ." I had asked my artist friends to comment on some of my paintings in progress and I …
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Experience Willa Cather's World in New Ways

… Cather Memorial Prairie . As Cather herself wrote in The Song of the Lark , “In October, the days were bathed in sunlight and the …
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Couple Donates Beloved Allan Tubach Painting

… about prairie life. My favorites are My Ántonia and The Song of the Lark .” A few years ago, Ruth Keene, a member of our Board …
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Volunteer Profiles: Don & Teri Theobald

… events. What are your favorite Willa Cather novels? The Song of the Lark and  My Antonia .   If you were to tell someone who had …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… has retired from a career in education law. Both avid Willa Cather enthusiasts, the Andersons have traveled to various … at a beautiful October sunset on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. You recently visited Red Cloud. What brought you here and how did you hear about us? We are big fans of Willa Cather. Having spent our …
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