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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … photographs, art and decorative arts, journals, and rare book collections, as well as items belonging to Willa Cather … Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska Subjects: settlement Willa Cather Silas Garber agriculture Webster …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/10/2025

49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Marlena Myles

… Myles November 18, 2021   Marlena Myles teaches people about Indigenous history through art, records stories in … Language” at the National Willa Cather Center’s Red Cloud Opera House exhibit from November 5 to December 14. The vector …
Posted: 12/18/2022
Last Updated: 11/29/2024

Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann

… monarch groves of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled … arts manager, and registered nurse, Ohlmann finally lands in Texas, buys a house, and gets a dog. But her house … Mad Women  (Dancing Girl Press, 2017),  Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide  (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and  The …
Posted: 07/08/2023
Last Updated: 07/13/2023

Music in Willa Cather's Writing

… she enters the world of formal study in the urban Chicago landscape, her musical parameter shifts to a classic, … Kronborg’s ascent to the height of her musical career.  She lands the plum role of Sieglinde in Richard Wagner’s  Die … One of Ours. “I wanted my red-headed soldier from a prairie farm to 'get some of his back,' . . . through a fine …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/09/2023

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 …
Posted: 06/17/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

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