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Spring Conference Line-Up Announced

… Image Spring Conference Line-Up Announced May 9, 2016 The Willa Cather Foundation hosts their 61st annual Willa Cather … Cather’s life and war-era writings but on those of her literary contemporaries, as well as the legacy of the war on …
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Local artists' exhibit at the Red Cloud Opera House

… at the Red Cloud Opera House May 13, 2016 The 61st annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, “‘Both Bitter and Sweet’: Cather, … call the Red Cloud Opera House at 402-746-2641 or visit www.WillaCather.org. Programming at the Willa Cather …
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Bostocks Honored with Mountford Volunteer Award

… Bostock of Red Cloud were recently recognized by the Willa Cather Foundation with the 2016 Miriam Mountford Volunteer … Award. The Bostocks have been volunteering for the Willa Cather Foundation since the opening of the Red Cloud …
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I Love A Prairie: Author Pam Houston Visits Red Cloud

… her time here. She and her husband stayed at the Villa Willa ("too short") in the Moonstone Block above the National Willa Cather, and took a guided tour with education coordinator, …
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Writers Group Makes Its Way to Red Cloud

… Journey of Thirteen Bereaved Mothers took in all that Cather country has to offer, including tours , a weeklong … book. The retreat culminated in an evening picnic at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie filled with laughter and great … Please contact education coordinator Rachel Olsen at rolsen@willacather.org . …
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Apply for Our New Teacher Institute!

… things that would be most helpful to their efforts to bring Willa Cather to their classrooms. To meet both of these needs, education staff at the National Willa Cather Center has developed a summer teacher …
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Lynn R. Wolfe's Red Cloud Roots and a Century of Creation

… to return some of it to Red Cloud. “He was a big fan of the Willa Cather Foundation,” she added, “so I am pleased that we … support that cause.” Asked if by chance her father ever met Willa Cather, she said, “No, but he had a huge stack of her …
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Spotlight on the Farmers and Merchants Bank Restoration

… Red Cloud’s offices before being purchased in 1959 by the Willa Cather Foundation. Following efforts to convert the building … office, museum, and research space, it was dedicated as the Willa Cather Museum on May 26, 1962, with John G. Neihardt …
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Portrait of Evelyn Osborne Joins the Collection

… October 20, 2021 In her short story “The Profile,” Willa Cather writes of a painter who falls in love with his … heart of a disagreement between Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Willa Cather. As Mark Madigan has written in Vol. 44 of the …
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Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie

… Pollinator Week on the Prairie June 15, 2022 Visit the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie  "We come and go, but the land is … 98% of land has been converted to crop land while the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie is among the 2% that remains …
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