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Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie
… dark-sky viewing in the clear night sky. [It’s also a great place to bring a picnic !] Willa Cather returned to Red … affection was not for the other people and the other places I had been writing about. I loved the country where I … every farm, every tree, every field in the region around my home, and they all called out to me. . . .” “Cather …
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Final Phase of Cather Center Construction Underway
… Lark , the fully restored building will become permanent home to the National Willa Cather Center next year. “After … construction is a milestone in recognizing Willa Cather’s place as one of America’s greatest novelists. We are …
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Willa Cather Foundation Collection Continues to Grow
… exploration of the attic of the 140-year-old George Cather home, I thought I felt the whole house tremble when I … thousand pieces of archival materials awaiting a proper placement in history. And now by chance, the remodeling of the George Cather home was coinciding with the opening of the archive. Yes, …
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Safeguarding the Windows at Grace Episcopal Church
… motivation to preserve the site stemmed from it being the home church of Willa Cather and her parents. Two of the … of the interior and exterior surfaces, perimeter putty replacements and painting, and installation of new tempered glass coverings on the exterior that replaced aging and yellowed plexiglass. While all work …
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Artist Tim Youd on Typing Willa Cather in Red Cloud
… winds—and a rare sweltering day while in the Childhood Home attic—as he has moved around to different Willa … Lark in Red Cloud? Two reasons: even though Thea Kronborg's home hometown of Moonstone is nominally in Colorado, much of … atypical width. Do you have a specific favorite author or place where you have typed a book? It's a tough question, …
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Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”
… Shadow — Paintings Inspired by the Art and Life of Willa Cather is showing at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery … June 30 and will be featured in our 66th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference in June. Karen will be in Red Cloud … of 2017, I read Alex Ross's "A Walk in Willa Cather's Prairie" in The New Yorker . I had always thought the images …
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Community Events: Free and Open to the Public!
… of the conference, we are also hosting several events in Red Cloud on Saturday, June 5—the last day of the … open to the greater community, free of charge . We invite visitors to join us at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie and …
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Experience Willa Cather's World in New Ways
… of our walking tours of the Willa Cather Childhood Home; these drop-in tours take place at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m., and 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. All … a variety of lodging options, including the Cather Second Home Guest House and Villa Willa , both available for …
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Meet Joanna Blitch: Illustrator of Special Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa
… publication of Youth and the Bright Medusa, Willa Cather's 1920 collection of eight stories, and her first … to submit your portfolio? My mother is interested in Cather and her work. She sent me the call for illustration … to visit Red Cloud and the Willa Cather Cather Memorial Prairie, though. Were there any particular things—images, …
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Students Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely!
… her stay productive. Still, she would love to be able to visit and work at the NWCC, especially to spend time in the … past and ultimately make connections to the present and predictions about the future. As a high school student, … skillful world-building in writing, and being in Red Cloud in person would bring additional clarity to Cather’s …
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