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Annotations from the Archive: Benefit
… the Archive: Benefit February 6, 2023 On February 4, 1888, Willa Cather and her friends staged a musical version of “Beauty … to the Red Cloud Chief , which provided an excellent review of the show. This has sometimes been misattributed as …
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Annotations from the Archive: Discovering Emanuel Prettyman
… at the battle for Cantigny, France—one of the American infantry’s defining battles—details about the death of … Cather had written, “Sgt. Major E.H. Prettyman, Co. A. 26th Inf. 1st Div. A.E.F.” To the best of our knowledge, this is …
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Celebrating Juneteenth
… the breadbasket of the Confederacy, the bitter divisions of slavery and the Civil War are still evident. Willa Cather told a portion of that story in her 1940 novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, which was based on the Cathers' own family …
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Work with Us! Taking Applications for Facilities Associate
… Director, Collections & Curation Who We Are: The National Willa Cather Center exists to promote and encourage increased … Pay: $17.00-$19.00/hour with $0.50 increase upon favorable review after 3 months This job description may evolve over …
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Facilities & Preservation Specialist Wanted
… and budget availability Experience using Gmail, Google Calendar and Drive, and Microsoft applications Ability to …
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Music on the Prairie
… Foundation will provide two special opportunities for visitors to explore the land that Cather so vividly … insight about nonfiction writing while visiting the prairie town that inspired Nebraska’s Pulitzer Prize-winning author, … from the land and its rare forbs and grasses. Guided tours of Cather’s childhood home and other sites relating to …
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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 … has written in Vol. 44 of the Willa Cather Newsletter & Review , Osborne and Canfield both studied at the Sorbonne, …
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Our Final Ántonia Story!
… celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Cather’s My Ántonia in the first 2018 issue of the Willa Cather Review , we asked thirty widely varied readers—fans, …
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Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”
… in “Coming, Aphrodite!” Then I had to figure out how to place the figure in my painting of the boarding house room … and how do you like to work? I prefer working in my small home studio, and I do use my own photographs. I paint en … the Red Cloud Opera House, and the Willa Cather Childhood Home. What is your biggest takeaway from this exhibit and …
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Humanities Nebraska Sponsors Free Spring Conference Events
… Free Spring Conference Events May 24, 2021 The National Willa Cather Center will host its 66th annual Spring Conference … managing editor at Time , managing editor at The Paris Review , editor at Artforum and Bookforum , and managing …
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