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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud

… engaged in a special program planned through the National Willa Cather Center. With a well-planned itinerary offered through the Road Scholar program—”Red Cloud: Willa Cather’s Window to the World”—participants enjoyed …
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Now Booking School and Group Tours For the Fall

… tours for schools or groups who want to learn more about Willa Cather and the town that inspired so much of her writing. Here at the National Willa Cather Center, we offer an array of guided tour …
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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains

… using the colorful blooms as trail markers came to be. Cather directly referenced the trail on the Laramie Plain of … always seem to me the roads to freedom." When you visit Willa Cather's Red Cloud or the  Willa Cather Memorial Prairie  this fall, be sure to linger …
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Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020

… for 2020 August 28, 2019 As a young college student, Willa Cather’s academic path took an unexpected turn when, … power to significantly alter a student’s future, and the Willa Cather Foundation offers several scholarship …
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Sites Manager Position Open

… the National Willa Cather Center (30,000 square feet); the Red Cloud Opera House (11,000 square feet); and nine sites on the …
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2019 Artist-in-Residence, Richard Dickson, On What Inspires His Rural Photography

… to photograph the landscapes and buildings in and around Red Cloud and Webster County. Using Victorian-era and … exhibit, Beauty in the Ordinary , at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery (from August 9 - September 30, 2019). We …
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Call for Submissions: Creative Works Inspired by My Ántonia

… Image Call for Submissions: Creative Works Inspired by My Ántonia February 27, 2018 Sarah Orne Jewett once wrote to … little or great, it belongs to Literature.” If Cather’s  My Ántonia  has ever teased your mind, the  Willa Cather … this novel. 2018 is the centenary of the publication of  My Ántonia . To celebrate this anniversary, the  Willa …
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Marking the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice

… As the world remembers the end of the Great War, we at the Willa Cather Foundation would like to share—again— Telling War …
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Meet Intern William Kelly

… with our executive director, Ashley Olson. While in Red Cloud, he is living in the apartment at the Burlington … with our website, and learning more about the day-to-day operations of a nonprofit organization. What about the …
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Suicide Grave

… Shimerda's suicide grave in My Antonia  was described by Willa Cather as a little island of tall red grass. Francis …
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