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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
… every word of those posters; the names of the plays and the nights on which each would be given. After we had decided … could prevail upon our parents. Would they let us go every night, or only on opening and closing nights?" "How good … a $275,000 challenge grant for the Opera House in December 2001, which the Foundation matched three-to-one and …
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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 … be a poem, a painting, a novel, a symphony, or a piece of sculpture [sic]. No thought of editors, opinions, …
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Brattleboro Literary Festival's Literary Cocktail Hour:
… Taylor Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center The Life of Willa Cather with Benjamin Taylor … Cather , and our executive director, Ashley Olson, for a "Literary Cocktail Hour" at the end of the work week! This …
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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
… 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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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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