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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!
… cities in Europe where I used to love to go . . ." -Willa Cather in a letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood While Willa … historic sites and settings —even a longer Country Tour and Prairie Tour! When planning your visit, all tours can be … Tour (offered on Saturdays through March 2025)! LEARN MORE ABOUT THE BIG READ BOOK A MY ÁNTONIA TOUR …
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Nick Powers, Our On-Staff Nebraska Master Naturalist
… Image Our guided Prairie Tour will have new enhancements thanks to Nick's … or the University of Nebraska. Nick has been with the Willa Cather Foundation since January 2022 and is currently … to get better at the Prairie Tour, particularly talking about the plants and animals that live on the prairie. I …
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Meet our 2024 Humanities Interns!
… Pacholski (left) and Sophie Ryan at our 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference in June Meet our 2024 Humanities … within the literature field for students, Sarah was told about the National Willa Cather Center internship by one of … Since arriving in Red Cloud, Sarah has been a very avid prairie goer, and it's been their writing sanctuary when on …
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Beneath the Wide-Open
… there, under one’s feet, but what one saw when one looked about was that brilliant blue world of stinging air and … sky!” Death Comes for the Archbishop The National Willa Cather Center is pleased to welcome oil painter Jonathan … at no charge, as part of our mission to advance Willa Cather's legacy through education, preservation, and the …
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Red Cloud Opera House
… Image Red Cloud Opera House "When I go about among little Nebraska towns, the thing I miss most is the Opera House." —Willa Cather, Personal Interview Built in 1885, the Red Cloud … people." "But I am sorry that the old Opera Houses in the prairie towns are dark, because they really did give a …
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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
… Nebraska where one used to be able to go into a bakery and buy better pastry than is to be had anywhere except in the … generation which tries to cheat its aesthetic sense by buying things instead of making anything. She deplores a …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones
… stays. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the … economic impact on Red Cloud of nearly $6 million per year. About Hotel Garber Hotel Garber will be a 26-room boutique … enjoy the museum, the historic sites, the town, the Cather Prairie, and other scenic places Cather loved. In the first …
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