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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… has retired from a career in education law. Both avid Willa Cather enthusiasts, the Andersons have traveled to various settings around North America that appear in Willa Cather’s novels. They recently spent time in Red Cloud where … at a beautiful October sunset on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. You recently visited Red Cloud. What brought you …
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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains
… Image Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains August 28, 2019 “The road ran about like a wild … the trail on the Laramie Plain of Wyominng in The Song of the Lark , "where the wagon-trails of the … the landscape.] However, sunflowers were nothing new on the Plains. As early as 5,000 years ago, Native Americans …
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Cather Symposium: Ireland
… the University of Nebraska - Lincoln Set in the ancestral home of the Cather family, and taking place during the centennial of My Ántonia , the symposium …
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Pavelka Farm Served as 4th Tourism Serves Site
… Tourism’s fourth Nebraska Tourism Serves project took place in Bladen, Nebraska, on November 4 and 5 . Nebraska … Pavelka Farmstead in Bladen, Nebraska, near Red Cloud (the home of Willa Cather). This property provided part of the … repairing the cellar steps, landscaping and cleanup of the home’s interior. “The Pavelka Farmstead is one of Nebraska's …
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Pavelka Farmstead Selected As Tourism Serves Site
… Tourism’s fourth Nebraska Tourism Serves project will take place in Bladen, Nebraska, November 4 and 5 . Nebraska … Pavelka Farmstead in Bladen, Nebraska, near Red Cloud (the home of Willa Cather). This property provided part of the … repairing the cellar steps, landscaping and cleanup of the home’s interior. “The Pavelka Farmstead is one of Nebraska's …
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IMLS-Funded Exhibit to Open in the National Willa Cather Center
… bittersweet vine that grows outside Cather’s childhood home in Red Cloud, Nebraska, explores and embraces the … of Cather’s life and art—domesticity and worldliness; home and travel; happiness and sadness; the bitter and the … Cather’s life and times, understand the significance of the place they are visiting, and inspire those who haven’t read …
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Albertinis Become Charter Members of Legacy Society
… and they would always have much to talk about on the way home,” Dolores said. After observing the work of the WCF for … author sites in New England, but Red Cloud holds a special place in their hearts. “If people haven’t been to Red Cloud, …
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Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012
… Workshop: May 17-20, 2012 October 26, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the … prairie that affected her youth. Each year, the Willa Cather Foundation is pleased to host a Prairie Writers' … from a professional writer, the workshop incorporates tours of seven local historic sites relating to Cather's …
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Cloverton Cemetery
… was a nice graveyard, Rosicky reflected, sort of snug and homelike, not cramped or mournful,—a big sweep all round it. … rattled right up to the wire fence. And it was so near home. Over there across the cornstalks his own roof and … himself to mind the Doctor . . . . He was awful fond of his place, he admitted. He wasn't anxious to leave it. And it …
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National Willa Cather Center Meets Challenges, Enters Final Campaign Stage
… this fall, but want to be certain all financing is in place before we authorize the formal phase of construction … and symbol of the town’s promise. The “Moon Block” was home to numerous offices and retail businesses, and Cather …
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