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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 … full  performance schedule  and is home to the Willa Cather Foundation offices, art gallery and bookstore.  Willa Cather …
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Volunteer

… Volunteer Image The Willa Cather Foundation was started in 1955 by Mildred R. Bennett and a … at the National Willa Cather Center Access to Opera House events Volunteer orientation and training will be provided …
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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 … be a poem, a painting, a novel, a symphony, or a piece of sculpture [sic]. No thought of editors, opinions, …
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Virtual Author Series: Jacob Friefeld & Angela Bates

… history during our first author series of 2024! Join us as we talk with Jacob Friefeld, author of The First … The First Migrants  from our online bookstore  here . About Jacob Friefeld Jacob K Friefeld is the director of the … Nicodemus, Kansas. She has served on the Kansas Historical Foundation board of directors and is a member of 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

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost … suicide would become the basis for Cather's first published story, "Peter," and Annie herself would later serve as …
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Annotations from the Archive: The Willa Cather Childhood Home

… of planning, research, and parallel work on both the house itself and the collections that have been housed within … many resources from our archive to search for clues about how the house was constructed, updated, and used over … of the house shows, at magnification, the original brick foundation, much of which was lost during 20th century …
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