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School Field Trips
… Home & More The National Willa Cather Center offers customizable experiences for students of all ages and grade … the current exhibit on display in the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery. Take part in an archival learning activity. … staff. Not sure how to get started planning your visit? Contact Rachel Olsen, director of education and engagement …
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Author Series and Book Signing: Gail Shaffer Blankenau
… Series Friday, Apr 5, 2024 | 1 - 5pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … Online Now Observe National Nebraska Day by learning more about the complex history of the state's south central … p.m. Book a guided tour , hike the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, or peruse the American Bittersweet exhibit and …
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Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal
… and reappraise many of the objects acquired when the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial was a nebulous new idea, yet to be … many acquaintances, friends, and relatives, inquiring about their willingness to speak about the author. The … (1966) recalled that afternoon, and posthumously, the Prairie Schooner published an expanded version under the …
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Brattleboro Literary Festival's Literary Cocktail Hour:
… Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center The Life of Willa Cather with Benjamin Taylor … Benjamin Taylor and Ashley Olson will be in conversation about the life of Willa Cather. Combining intricate analysis … author, as well as the 612-acre Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, historic lodging, and the Red Cloud Opera House. …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years Cather's essay for the Nation still resonates September 5, … spanned from 1922-24 featuring different authors writing about 48 states. In 2003, John Leonard wrote in the Nation , … the importance of a place and its people—the traditions and prairie landscape of the Great Plains that Cather loved and …
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Visit
… Visit Visit the Museum No study of Cather is complete without a trip to Red Cloud. The National … Hours & Directions Lodging Options Lodging Options Cather Prairie Cather Prairie Cather's Red Cloud Cather's Red Cloud … her high school graduation oration in 1890. Learn More About the Opera House …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones
… facilities, a small lending library, artwork and historic images on exhibit, and guest rooms for overnight stays. When … that illustrated significant expansion of local lodging options, an increased number and variety of dining options, and an expansion of customized services and retail …
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Potter Block Ceremonial Groundbreaking
… a Reality October 13, 2022 A standing-room only crowd of about 100 people gathered at the Potter Block (346 N. … years. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the … enjoy the museum, the historic sites, the town, the Cather Prairie, and other scenic places Cather loved. In the first …
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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 … it. If you are interested in the same "human stories" Willa Cather illuminated in her own work, you will enjoy this free … monarch groves of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled …
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Music in Willa Cather's Writing
… back,' . . . through a fine friendship,” Cather said in a New York Herald interview published December 24, 1922. … first in 1916 when a group of musician friends gathered in New York's Wellington Hotel. “They played a lot of chamber …
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