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Native Grasses of the Apache Highlands

… Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States The National Willa Cather Center welcomed artist Matilda Essig of Sonoita, … a grasslands community not unlike the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. ON DISPLAY October 4, 2019, to January 9, 2020 … RECEPTION Friday, October 4, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. ABOUT THE ARTIST Matilda Essig is a traditionally trained …
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"A Walk in Her Footsteps" Tour & Theater Package

… 2019 | 12am - Sunday, Oct 27, 2019 | 12am National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 … lodging for two nights, guided Willa Cather-related site tours, and more! *Your tour package includes: Two nights in … Willa Cather site tour  on Friday afternoon; A guided  Country Tour  on Saturday morning of rural Cather-related …
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Pollinator Workshop

… Image Tuesday, Sep 6, 2016 | 10am - 2pm Willa Cather Memorial Prairie 5 miles South of Red Cloud on HWY 281 Red Cloud , NE … release our monarchs on the prairie! For more information about the workshop, or to RSVP by September 1, please …
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A New Garden Ethic: Lecture by Landscape Designer Benjamin Vogt

… Image Friday, Apr 27, 2018 | 4 - 5:15pm The Cather Foundation welcomes author and landscape designer Benjamin … Vogt of Monarch Gardens, LLC, to the Red Cloud Opera House on Friday, April 27, at 4:00 p.m. as part of the WCF’s … Vogt writes in his book. “Using native plants .is . . . about going forward and helping flora and fauna adapt to a …
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Artist Reception with Ken Anderson

… his Freehand exhibit at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery. About the artist:  Ken Anderson was born and raised in … years ago with friends who had an avid interest in Willa Cather. I was intrigued with the architecture of the homes, … in Kearney, Nebraska. The reception will be followed by the Prairie Songs: Remembering Ántonia , song cycle. Click here …
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Rothenberger Book Talk and Signing

… Visit,” and senior editor and contributing author of “A Prairie Mosaic: An Atlas of Central Nebraska’s Land, Culture, and … by Library Journal . He considers himself a student of the prairie and popular culture of the Great Plains. Scottsbluff …
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Catherland by Shane Booth

… fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.” – Willa Cather Using his 1867 studio camera and Voightlander lens to … Willa Cather grew up, and where she based several of her novels describing life on the prairie in the early 19th century. My photographs evoke a sense of place, …
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Annotations from the Archive: Herbaria of Webster County

… names of our own for them." When Willa Cather described her prairie childhood in "The Education You Have to Fight For," … how they struggled to apply their Eastern educations to the lands of the West. We're inspired too, to think about how we … ttucker@willacather.org. You can also schedule a guided prairie tour (but please, no specimen collecting!) by …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions

… things with which we are most familiar that we know least about. Familiarity seems to dull the edge of our curiosity. … this great feast day of ours as a thing that came about because of a general sentiment and through a general … Red Cloud — Auld Family Collection, TX-46-001, Willa Cather Foundation Collections & Archives at the National Willa …
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Annotations from the Archive: On Writing Themes

… Image Annotations from the Archive: On Writing Themes August 16, 2021 August in Nebraska is a hot and hazy, … to school. In just such a moment, Willa Cather’s earliest known letter was written at the end of August 1888, to Helen Stowell , a family friend who had moved to California with her …
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