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Robert and Ardis James Foundation Donates $250,000 for NWCC Endowment

… enthusiasts from across the country who visit the National Willa Cather Center can look forward to new experiences—in … Center — a museum and archive that opened in 2017 as a living memorial to Cather. Campaign Co-Chair Jay Yost, …
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Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… and helping other employees with various tasks like mail ordering, stocking books, and even watering flowers.  …
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Volunteer Profiles: Don & Teri Theobald

… November 4, 2020 Don and Teri Theobald live in one of the Willa Cather Foundation's Moon Block apartments and often … experience and we are glad we did it. How do you like living in the Moon Block and what led you to renting an …
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Remembrances of Mildred Bennett Sought

… of conversation, I would be glad to connect with you by email or postal mail. Even if you think you have nothing extraordinary to … interviewed, you can reach Will Fellows at willfellows@hotmail.com or at 414-208-9730. * Ron Hull, Backstage: Stories …
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Call for Submissions: Creative Works Inspired by My Ántonia

… Ántonia February 27, 2018 Sarah Orne Jewett once wrote to Willa Cather that “the thing that teases the mind over and over … each of its 2018 issues to this iconic work, to its living appeal, and to its inexhaustibility as a leading …
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Meet Intern William Kelly

… executive director, Ashley Olson. While in Red Cloud, he is living in the apartment at the Burlington Depot, beginning to read through Willa Cather’s work, and exploring the prairie and rural environs. …
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New Book in the bookstore!

… 22, 2016 You might spot a familiar landmark on the cover of Local Glories: Opera Houses on Main Street, Where Art and … Opera House. A traveling stock company settled down at the local hotel and thrilled and entertained us for a week. …
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Read Across Red Cloud

… every year on March 2, Dr. Seuss’ birthday. This year, the Willa Cather Foundation, Red Cloud Community Schools, Auld Public … celebrate the joy of reading. It is a day for those of us living in the region where Pulitzer Prize winner Willa …
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2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success

… Success July 24, 2015 2015 was a very special year for the Willa Cather Foundation’s annual Spring Conference. As we … Daniel Martinez, a Peruvian guitarist and song-writer, now living and working in Lincoln, Nebraska. Martinez showcased …
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Red Cloud, Nebraska

… Image Red Cloud, Nebraska Willard Thorp, in "American Writing in the Twentieth Century" says, "from the literary standpoint, Red Cloud ranks as one of the most … largest living memorial to an author in the country. Willa Cather spent her childhood in this small railroad town, and …
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