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Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined
… role in the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about the West and those who inhabited it. Imprinting the … indigenous people. Support for this exhibit at the National Willa Cather Center was made possible with a grant from the …
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Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading
… National Willa Cather Center. Hear an excerpt from Taylor's new book, followed by what is sure to be an engaging talk … Times/Christopher Isherwood Prize and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice; his Proust: The Search was … York Times Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag, Debriefing , was published by …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson
… later won a medal in an Austrian shooting competition. “My parents worked and saved so that I could go to college … numerous coincidences of Cather's character, ‘Thea’ with my own.” Sarah knew Mildred Bennett in Red Cloud, who was … English was her high school music teacher. “He encouraged my singing when I thought it was nothing special. I was …
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Virtual Author Series: David McKay Powell
… Sep 14, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Learn more about the art form that inspired Willa Cather during her entire life! Author David McKay Powell …
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Youth and the Bright Medusa
… published in her first book of short fiction, The Troll Garden (1905). However, it makes sense that Cather would …
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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann
… Register Online Now Join us for an engaging conversation about Nebraska memoir with Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne … in it. If you are interested in the same "human stories" Willa Cather illuminated in her own work, you will enjoy this free …
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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, … in Red Cloud he has increased his Cather reads from four novels to seven, after first being introduced through O …
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Artist Reception: Margaret Berry's "Prairie Apothecary"
… Margaret Berry, whose work is on display at the National Willa Cather Center. About the Prairie Apothecary Exhibit This body of work …
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From the Permanent Collection: John Blake Bergers
… Image Image Image Image Image Art Gallery Saturday, Jan 22, 2022 | 12am - Saturday, Feb 12, … by Bergers in our permanent collection were donated to the Willa Cather Foundation by the artist himself and his family, this …
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The Visual Narratives of John Blake Bergers
… Image Image Art Gallery Monday, Dec 7, 2020 | 12am - Tuesday, Feb 2, 2021 | … of John Blake Bergers returns to our Red Cloud Opera House gallery! Comprised of pieces from our permanent collection, … for each painting, Bergers brings to life even the smallest detail from Cather's writing and their shared experiences of …
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