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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 … please contact Ashley Olson, Executive Director at 866-731-7304 or aolson@willacather.org. …
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Save America's Treasures Grant Awarded for Restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood Home

… among many other conservation and restoration projects in archives and museums across the nation. For a list of all …
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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 … contact :  Ashley Olson, Executive Director, at 402-746-2653 or aolson@willacather.org . …
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Artist Tim Youd on Typing Willa Cather in Red Cloud

… 2022 Los Angeles-based artist Tim Youd has been typing The Song of the Lark in Red Cloud as part of his 100 Novels Project , every … to Alfred A. Knopf and Blanche Wolf Knopf, May 16, 1923: “The Oliver typewriter which Mr. Samuel Knopf ordered …
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Tim Youd: Retyping Willa Cather

… Friday, Apr 29, 2022 | 12am National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States The … three Cather novels in their entirety: O Pioneers !, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia . These will be the 72nd, 73rd and 74th …
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Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”

… Shadow — Paintings Inspired by the Art and Life of Willa Cather is showing at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery … my own photographs. I paint en plein air because I learn about light and it forces me to simplify. But I hate the … of 2017, I read Alex Ross's "A Walk in Willa Cather's Prairie" in The New Yorker . I had always thought the images …
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Experience Willa Cather's World in New Ways

… Image Experience Willa Cather's World in New Ways October 21, 2020 Autumn is one of the best times of year to visit Red Cloud. Sunrises linger over the brick façades of … experience with historic and cultural attributes, unique lodging and dining, and a spectacular prairie landscape far …
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Couple Donates Beloved Allan Tubach Painting

… Painting December 16, 2020 A recent gift of the painting Willa’s Windows , by noted Nebraska artist Allan Tubach, … in 2005. “I was at Allan’s house, and he knew I liked Willa Cather, and I said, 'Gee, I just have to have that … patron, and a mutual love of Nebraska and Willa Cather’s writing, Willa’s Windows has found its way to Red Cloud. …
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Volunteer Profiles: Don & Teri Theobald

… November 4, 2020 Don and Teri Theobald live in one of the Willa Cather Foundation's Moon Block apartments and often … would say about Red Cloud and Willa Cather? Willa Cather’s writing is so descriptive and by coming to Red Cloud you see …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… attic room just as she described it, as Thea’s room in The Song of the Lark , allowed us to envision her ensconced there in her own …
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