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Historic Sites
… restored exterior finishes, but will also offer accessible tours for those with mobility limitations. “When she went … priest who served this church came by train from a nearby town. A special train whistle alerted parishioners that Mass … store for decades. “When I go about among little Nebraska towns . . . the thing I miss most is the opera house.” …
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Own A Piece of History: Willa Cather Sculpture
… by sculptor Littleton Alston June 7, 2023 The Willa Cather Foundation is pleased to announce an opportunity to own a … 1920s, artifacts from the National Willa Cather Center’s museum collection were also incorporated into the design. … a piece in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Read more about—and view—the June 7, 2023 unveiling ceremony at the …
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Red Cloud Opera House
… Image Red Cloud Opera House "When I go about among little Nebraska towns, the thing I miss most is the Opera House." —Willa Cather, Personal Interview Built in …
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Volunteer
Volunteer Image The Willa Cather Foundation was started in 1955 by Mildred R. Bennett and a small group of dedicated volunteers who were committed to preserving and restoring historic properties relevant to the life and works of Willa Cather. Today, the …
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The Fourth Grade Project
… Image Judy Gelles, The Car, USA, Washington, Public School. Image Judy Gelles, England … do you live with? What do you wish for? What do you worry about? Their varied stories touch on the human condition and … for the Arts. Awards include a grant from the Lomax Family Foundation, an Individual Artist Grant from the Rhode Island …
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The Potter Family
… the Red Cloud sawmill south of the Webster Street business district. Later J.Q. and Jacob opened the first … they still came once or twice a year after we came there in about 1875 but were always friendly. . . . After my father … power. The dam is strongly constructed upon a rock foundation, as lasting as the rock of Gibraltar. The mill is …
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Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal
… and reappraise many of the objects acquired when the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial was a nebulous new idea, yet to be … many acquaintances, friends, and relatives, inquiring about their willingness to speak about the author. The … (1966) recalled that afternoon, and posthumously, the Prairie Schooner published an expanded version under the …
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Virtual Author Series: Jacob Friefeld & Angela Bates
… into the rich history of Black homesteaders in Kansas and Nebraska during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. You … coauthor of Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History (Nebraska, 2017), which received the Nebraska Book Award for Non-Fiction History in 2018. The …
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Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined
… role in the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about the West and those who inhabited it. Imprinting the … by Dr. Randall Griffe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, visitors to the Red Cloud Opera … with a grant from the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation and support from the Claire M. Hubbard …
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Willa Cather Biography
… so the children could receive a better education at the town's school. At that time, Red Cloud was a division point … transferred passengers to and from the depot south of town. The Red Cloud Opera House , now restored and the … letters. A Lost Lady, published in 1923, is something of tour de force example of the sort of fiction Cather called …
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