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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

… Sought January 28, 2020 In collaboration with the National Willa Cather Center, author Will Fellows is working to bring forth … that preserves and interprets that world for those of us living today, Fellows considers Mildred Bennett to be a …
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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!

… 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

… Cloud Opera House also welcomed back Superior, Nebraska, native, A.P. Andrews. Now a New York-based playwright, … a second keynote address was given in Lincoln. Nebraska native Terese Svoboda spoke about how her Nebraska roots … evening outdoor concert was preceded by a barbecue on the grounds, an event that is quickly becoming one of Spring …
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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 … Rosicky," "Peter" Group Field trips : Country and town tours of Cather- related historic sites …
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"Not Stones At All, But Life Itself"

… formulation of the world as "word, expression, news of God." "I think that this is how Willa Cather understood the …
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