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Volunteer Profiles: Don & Teri Theobald

… Opera House program committee. Teri is on the board of the Republican Valley Arts Council. At events, we serve as bartenders and we get to visit with …
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Remembrances of Mildred Bennett Sought

… make use of materials in the National Willa Cather Center archives, and to glean information and insight from the …
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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 …
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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!

… new economic and cultural life to those same communities.” Willa Cather herself was a champion of the opera house. In a … Martha, The Mikado. Nothing takes hold of a child like living people." Ann Satterthwaite is a city planner in …
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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

… performance of The Fine Things of Youth: Willa Cather's Lucy Gayheart in Words and Music . Performers Jill Anderson, Evan … Mark Kurtz, and David Porter brought the musical world of Lucy Gayheart to life at the Studio Theatre in UNL's Temple …
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Red Cloud, Nebraska

… Image Red Cloud, Nebraska Willard Thorp, in "American Writing in the Twentieth … This is because Red Cloud is home to the largest living memorial to an author in the country. Willa Cather spent her childhood in this small railroad town, and …
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Elderhostel

… Image Elderhostel March 25, 2009 Red Cloud:  Willa Cather's Window to the World June 15-19, 2009 Hosting the nation's largest living memorial to an American author, the Willa Cather …
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"Not Stones At All, But Life Itself"

… XXV Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, addresses the Cather Spring Conference. "It would not be an exaggeration to say that Willa Cather is partly responsible for my choosing the path … mentor, Sarah Orne Jewett: "The 'Pointed Fir' sketches are living things caught in the open, with light and freedom and …
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