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Rachel Olsen

… English teacher, she enjoys developing activities and content designed to preserve Cather’s rich literary history. …
Posted: 01/06/2023
Last Updated: 02/22/2024

Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… becoming our first education coordinator in 2019. In the fall of 2022, she was promoted to director of education and … of my job is our Teacher Institute program that takes place each summer. We launched this last year, and it was so … an Opera House show or to look at contemporary art in our gallery or visit the prairie, I hope they understand that …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/07/2023

Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains

… Railroad formed in Nebraska and emphasizes specific sites where escaping enslaved persons most likely found … escaped to freedom and traveled roughly 2,000 miles to visit actual sites, cities, and places that freedom-seekers … Endowment. About the Speaker Bill Hayes grew up in the historic town of Brownville. He received his B.A. in History …
Posted: 01/28/2026
Last Updated: 01/30/2026

71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… and institutional affiliation, should be submitted to Rachel Olsen, Director of Education and Engagement, via the  Spring … will be sent by mid-March. Questions may be submitted to Rachel Olsen or Tim Bintrim, Academic Advisor of the 2026 …
Posted: 08/20/2025
Last Updated: 01/27/2026

Echoes of the Archbishop

… Image Willa Cather at Mesa Verde Image Willa Cather's circa 1924 map of … Lewis’s Tall Tales of the Southwest,” by David Harrell. In Vol. 33 of the Willa Cather Newsletter & Review. pp. 4-8.  …
Posted: 08/29/2025
Last Updated: 11/09/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources

… 150 years can be examined in close detail. Our archivist, Tracy Sanford Tucker, regularly hosts individuals and small groups for …
Posted: 07/29/2024
Last Updated: 09/09/2025

Short Stories

… at liberty to address a girl. She was just one of them." Henrietta Solway Production and Zine …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/27/2025

School Field Trips

… Bittersweet: The Life and Writing of Willa Cather . Browse the current exhibit on display in the Red Cloud Opera …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/14/2025

70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… and institutional affiliation, should be submitted to Rachel Olsen, Director of Education and Engagement, via the  2025 … their scheduled presentation. Questions may be directed to Rachel Olsen or Todd Richardson, Academic Advisor of the …
Posted: 07/01/2024
Last Updated: 06/23/2025

NWCC Launches NEH-Funded Digital Projects

… (CARES) Act grant. These new projects, a mobile and web-app and a digital collections search tool, will help the … and descriptions necessary for creating the mobile tour apps  on the Cuseum platform. Designed to enhance guided … around the world, the National Willa Cather Center tour apps offer great flexibility. "We've thought of this as the …
Posted: 02/16/2021
Last Updated: 02/21/2025

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