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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation
… Image Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation January 23, 2019 After a several decades-long … sites and approximately 8,000 Cather related archival and museum artifacts, returns to local control the largest single … Willa Cather Center will remain a primary location to learn about and research one of America's most iconic writers. …
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Save America's Treasures Grant Awarded for Restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood Home
… Treasures Grant Awarded for Restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood Home September 26, 2019 With intent to … and a major tourist destination, the National Willa Cather Center announced today a $415,000 federal Save … was built in 1879 in the vernacular tradition of early prairie houses. Willa Cather, one of our nation’s greatest …
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Robert and Ardis James Foundation Donates $250,000 for NWCC Endowment
… 19, 2021 Literature enthusiasts from across the country who visit the National Willa Cather Center can look forward to new experiences—in Cather’s hometown of Red Cloud and virtually—thanks to the ongoing work of the Willa …
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Antonette Willa Skupa Turner: 1920-2021
… 16, 2021 For many of us in the Cather community, a trip to Red Cloud wasn't complete without a visit with Antonette Turner. The granddaughter of Anna …
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Community Events: Free and Open to the Public!
… Image Community Events: Free and Open to the Public! May 24, 2021 Join us on … to add new interpretation and exhibits. Our Red Cloud Opera House Gallery and National Willa Cather Center Bookstore …
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Students Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely!
… her stay productive. Still, she would love to be able to visit and work at the NWCC, especially to spend time in the … past and ultimately make connections to the present and predictions about the future. As a high school student, … skillful world-building in writing, and being in Red Cloud in person would bring additional clarity to Cather’s …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… about us? We are big fans of Willa Cather. Having spent our childhoods in Iowa and Kansas, we were aware of Cather’s Red … to the incredible beauty of the prairie. We also loved the tour of Cather’s childhood home – seeing her attic room just as she described it, as …
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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains
… When Jim Burden recalls the legend of “the sunflower-bordered roads to freedom” in My Ántonia , he remembers the … found sunflowers being grown by many of the tribes they visited in the 1500s and took those seeds with them as they … me the roads to freedom." When you visit Willa Cather's Red Cloud or the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie this fall, be …
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Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020
… Willa Cather Spring Conference that takes place June 4-6 in Red Cloud. If you would like more information about our scholarship opportunities, please visit the " Scholarships " page on our website. You can also …
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2019 Artist-in-Residence, Richard Dickson, On What Inspires His Rural Photography
… to photograph the landscapes and buildings in and around Red Cloud and Webster County. Using Victorian-era and … brought you to Red Cloud this summer? A few years ago I visited New Mexico, attracted by the sights and the setting …
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