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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… gathered for celebratory remarks, a ribbon-cutting, open house, and self-guided tours. The occasion bookended more … transformative adaptive reuse of the building that formerly housed retail, offices, and apartments was desirable to … $230,000 of reaching its goal.  In the first ten years of operation, Hotel Garber is projected to add up to ten new …
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American Voice: An Evening With Willa Cather

… Image Image from the Willa Cather Foundation Collections & Archives at the National Willa Cather Center At the Newberry Special Events Tuesday, … REGISTER HERE "The end is nothing, the road is all.” – Willa Cather, 'Old Mrs. Harris' This program will be held …
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Author Series & Book Signing: Karen Russell

… honored and delighted to welcome acclaimed writer Karen Russell to the Red Cloud Opera House to discuss her new … the Nebraska Cultural Endowment, or the Willa Cather Foundation. About Karen Russell Karen Russell is the author of six books …
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Hotel Garber Ribbon-Cutting

… Special Events Friday, Apr 4, 2025 | 3 - 8pm CT Red Cloud Opera House 413 N Webster St, Red Cloud, NE, 68970, US Red Cloud , … April 4, 2025 3:30 PM: Celebratory remarks at the Red Cloud Opera House 4:15 PM: Ribbon-cutting at Hotel Garber's front …
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Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up

… it do, Or do without. This week, the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery opens the traveling exhibit Thrift Style , a … contributions of Great Plains communities. In the first place, diet and cookery, the foundation of life, were …
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Virtual Author Series: Jim Locklear

… which arises on the High Plains of Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska and joins the Missouri River in Kansas City. The … the Dyck Arboretum of the Plains (Hesston, Kansas) and the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum. Jim lives in Lincoln, Nebraska and has spent considerable time exploring the Red …
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Virtual Author Series: Joy Castro

… literary thrillers Hell or High Water , which received the Nebraska Book Award, and Nearer Home, which have been … and Ethnic Studies (Latinx Studies) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she directs the Institute for Ethnic …
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Antonette Willa Skupa Turner Scholarship

… and Annie Sadilek Pavelka, prototypes for both Anton and Ántonia Shimerda in Cather's novel  My Ántonia  and Anton and Mary Rosicky in Cather's short … Application Past Winners 2013: Jordie Theye, Odell 2014: Abigail Feden, Papillon 2015: Madeline Warrick, Hastings …
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Leslie & Helen R. Wilson Memorial Scholarship

… son of Henry P. and Emma Wilson, was born November 20, 1894 and grew up at Geneva, Nebraska. He graduated from the … the Indian Creek community northwest of Red Cloud. In the 1940's the Inavale School Board asked Helen to teach and be … Scholarship Antonette Willa Skupa Turner Scholarship Ántonia Scholarship Leslie & Helen R. Wilson Memorial …
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Norma Ross Walter Scholarship

… Erin Duncan, Franklin 1993: Michelle Dowd, Omaha Central 1994: Kelly Bare, Lincoln Southeast 1995: Elicia Kaplan, … 2005: Alicia Dallman, Franklin  2006: Sarah Chambers, Palmyra  2007: Justine McMullin, Leigh  2008: Kirsten Block, … Scholarship Antonette Willa Skupa Turner Scholarship Ántonia Scholarship Leslie & Helen R. Wilson Memorial …
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