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Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns
… working on several needed and important projects in our archives. The Humanities Internship at the National Willa … and working in a physical archive intrigued me. Both archives focused on authors I hadn’t read previously, but … What is the scope of your internship? THARA —I’m in the archives. In fact, I’m back there so much that a few of my …
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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
… 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
… 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
… has joined us to delve into aspects of development and membership while mentoring with our executive director, … me to reach out to the Willa Cather Foundation and inquire about an internship. I’m fortunate enough to immerse myself … . The former because Cather gives words to feelings I have about the prairie when I drive through it, but didn’t know …
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New Book in the bookstore!
… April 22, 2016 You might spot a familiar landmark on the cover of Local Glories: Opera Houses on Main Street, Where … Americans, features our own Red Cloud Opera House on its front cover, which is only appropriate, given the book's close …
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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
… Image 2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success July 24, 2015 2015 was a very … Conference in Red Cloud, we also welcomed the return of our International Seminar to Nebraska by combining the two … Smith’s remarks. Due to the combined Spring Conference and International Seminar, a second keynote address was given in …
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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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