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Music on the Prairie

… Image Music on the Prairie May 16, 2011 When Willa Cather received the … so vividly described in works such as My Ántonia and O Pioneers!. “Music on the Cather Prairie” featuring Mike … at the Red Cloud Opera House on Sunday, June 5, at 3 p.m. Glover will read from her collection, and writers …
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Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie

… Image Image Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie June 15, 2022 Visit the Willa …  "We come and go, but the land is always here...” —O Pioneers! Here in Nebraska we are surrounded by wide open …
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Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing

… is always a thrill when we find that a company outside the publishing world has as much enthusiasm for our great authors as we do,” added Suzanne Herz, publisher of Vintage Books & Anchor Books . “We could not be … Books & Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House, publish the entire collection of Willa Cather’s writings in …
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Tim Youd: Retyping Willa Cather

… Apr 10, 2022 | 12am - Friday, Apr 29, 2022 | 12am National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE … the same make/model typewriter used by the author, and in a location related to the novel and/or author. When retyping, … Sites April 11 — Miner House porch: "Friends of Childhood," pp. 1-50 April 12 — Childhood Home  attic …
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Virtual Book Talk With Daryl W. Palmer

… Image Opera House Thursday, Nov 19, 2020 | 7 - 8:30pm Join us for an engaging book talk with Daryl W. Palmer, … the relationship with Nebraska in the years leading up to O Pioneers! is more dynamic than many have thought.  Palmer is …
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Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators

… Image Image Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators February 7, 2020 Visit Red Cloud—Our unique small town on the prairie and meet Willa Cather, Nebraska’s foremost citizen and author of O …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… School and teaches environmental law while Susan has retired from a career in education law. Both avid Willa Cather … the organization will achieve in the near future? In the long term? Because Cather’s work drew so much on her … on the site. And maybe some pavement that would make the road passable? Lots of possibilities, if the funds are …
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Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner

… Image Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner September 25, 2019 Some kids … about where I lived,” Karr explained. She has also read O Pioneers!  and she has a copy of Sapphira and the Slave Girl …
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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains

… Image Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains August 28, 2019 “The road ran about … Helianthus annuus  and  Helianthus petiolarus . Mormon pioneers described finding sage and sunflowers in 1850s Utah …
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Meet Intern William Kelly

… has joined us to delve into aspects of development and membership while mentoring with our executive director, … tasks. Primarily stewardship projects, streamlining our membership database and its communication with our website, … has to offer. A museum exhibit, bookstore, archive, art gallery, Opera House; not to mention the events held at the …
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