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Ashley Olson Receives Mildred Bennett Award

… Olson Receives Mildred Bennett Award November 21, 2025 The Nebraska Center of the Book recently honored National Willa … contribution to the fostering of the literary tradition of Nebraska," the Mildred Bennett Award has paid tribute to an impressive list of Nebraska's literary champions including Matt Mason, Ron …
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Home for the Holidays

… a bundle and is hurrying home to hide it."  –Willa Cather, Nebraska State Journal, December 17, 1893  Join us this …
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Lauren Anderson – NEW DATE!

… transferable to the new date. Lauren Anderson returns to Nebraska, bringing her soulful performance to the Red Cloud … Cloud Opera House is made possible with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. About Lauren Anderson …
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Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… of July, the most characteristic and most patriotic of all American gala days, its origin is seldom referred to and its … left in almost total obscurity. We have come to regard this great feast day of ours as a thing that came about because … a little house in Canada, and I have lived in a good many places in the world, but no one place is as dear to me as …
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All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture

… the story of Willa Cather’s initial encounters with the Nebraska frontier and its varied people. The history of the … our sites—those who may be interested in architecture, in Nebraska or rural history, in preservation—in addition to …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist October 16 is Ask-An-Archivist Day! October 16, 2025 October is American Archives Month, a time when archivists across the country … In my particular job, I also care for the museum and art collections, create exhibitions, and lead the team that …
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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not exaggerating, Carrie, … to childhood friend, Carrie Miner Sherwood [April 29, 1945] Visitors to Red Cloud are invited to book a stay at the …
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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 | 7 - 8:15pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States "The type of writer we have been talking about has a brain like Limbo, full of ghosts, for which he … characters and evocative descriptions of the Nebraska prairie they inhabit. Critics characterize her work as …
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Emma Parr

… her Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in May 2025, with minors in Art and … During her time at UNL, she interned with Humanities Nebraska, where she developed a passion for storytelling and …
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Jamie Adam

… of Ravenna, Jamie recently graduated from the University of Nebraska at Kearney with dual degrees in English and …
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