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Virtual Author Series: Tracy Daugherty

… Thursday, Oct 12, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Help us welcome Tracy Daugherty as he discusses his book  148 … by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. About the Author Tracy Daugherty was born and raised in … journals. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf, …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… Annotations from the Archives: The Library July 11, 2023 Creating a culture of reading on the … be considered a luxury.  Red Cloud did not have a public library until 1917. Though literary clubs were popular in … materials. In 1913, the new Red Cloud YMCA created a library in one of its rooms, with material donated by the …
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Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns!

… between the University of Nebraska and the National Willa Cather Center. Nolan Bennett , originally from Kearney, … Double Major, she has an interest in creative writing, literary studies and indigenous studies. Lucy became …
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Authors Margo Jefferson & Elizabeth Kendall

… United States '"Raw and relentless/gaudy and extravagant": Willa Cather's New York' Join us at the  18th International Willa … dance. She is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Literary Studies at the Eugene Lang College of New School in …
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Press Room

… D.C. Willa Cather (1873-1947) is an author of complex American stories, Cather wrote from a perspective and in a … individual in pre-Civil War Virginia; the impact of the Great War; the convergence of Indigenous, Hispanic, and … Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to …
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Organization History

… after Cather’s death, Bennett became fascinated by people, events, and historic sites in and around Red Cloud and … of her short stories. For the first twenty-five years of operations, the Foundation amassed a large museum collection … the novel  My Ántonia  the  Grace Episcopal Church , which houses a pair of stained-glass windows donated by Cather in …
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Event Archives

… - Any - Art Gallery Author Series International Seminar Opera House Prairie Writers Special Events Spring Conference Image "I am an incorrigable …
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Artist Reception for Shane Booth and Book Talk with Alan Wilkinson

… Gallery Saturday, Jun 25, 2016 | 4 - 6pm Red Cloud Opera House 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … Beginning at 4:00 PM, attendees will meet and hear about the work of photographer Shane Booth, who uses an 1867 … Residence with the Kerouac Project and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, and has worked as a reader of …
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Virtual Author Series: Dr. Will Thomas, Michael Burton, and Dr. Kwakiutl Dreher

… Founding to the Civil War , an award-winning account of the legal strategies used by enslaved people to gain freedom …
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Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days

… May 19, 2021 Jeanette Barbour wrote a profile, “A Woman Editor,” in the Pittsburg Press (March 28, 1897), with these … Cather's early and prolific career in magazine writing and editing: “Miss Willa Cather, the editor of the Home Monthly , is not Pittsburger, but she is …
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