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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!
… cities in Europe where I used to love to go . . ." -Willa Cather in a letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood While Willa … once performed—has a changing variety of performances and gallery shows throughout the year. Watch our Event pages for …
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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud
… in a special program planned through the National Willa Cather Center. With a well-planned itinerary offered through … & Archives, and visited the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. They also experienced our “ Country Tour ” on board … offers one the opportunity to experience her writings and learn more about her life in the setting that so greatly …
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Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud
… obscurity. We have come to regard this great feast day of ours as a thing that came about because of a general … The story once in Lincoln's ear, and the thing was done. He saw how precious such a day would become to the … of all the states fell in line, and the day has become one of the facts of our National existence.” Cather often …
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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes
… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the … come and go, but the land is always here...” —O Pioneers! Visit Red Cloud and immerse yourself in the prairie settings and …
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Soundstitching: Sites and Sounds of Willa Cather's World
… Tuesday, May 3, 2022 | 12am - Saturday, Jun 11, 2022 | 12am Red Cloud Opera House Gallery 413 N Webster Street Red Cloud … Cassia Kite's distinctive Soundstitching process allows visitors to experience Willa Cather's world in a whole new way. Soundstitching: …
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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather
… Welcome to the home of Willa Cather Willa Cather Willa Cather is one of the most … Historic Sites Reader Resources Reader Resources Plan Your Visit Plan Your Visit Cather's Writings Cather's Writings … and on news of activities of the Willa Cather Foundation in Red Cloud and elsewhere. The journal is intended for …
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Visit
… Visit Visit the Museum No study of Cather is complete without a trip to Red Cloud. The National Willa Cather Center is an award-winning museum in the heart … her high school graduation oration in 1890. Learn More About the Opera House …
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Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift
… 102 years old and is buried in her hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska. Kohout grew up in Texas, but each summer she visited her mother’s family in Lincoln, Nebraska. She has vivid memories of time spent with Mama … love of reading to him. Even with her family connection to Nebraska and Cather’s hometown, it wasn’t until Kohout was …
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Retired Teacher Leaves Unexpected Gift to the Willa Cather Foundation
… Foundation began in 2004, following a trip to Red Cloud, Nebraska for the Willa Cather Spring Conference. And while … education. “Something must have happened on that trip to Nebraska,” Harman said. “Something about the Foundation’s …
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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… Image Cather's House: Examining Built and Natural Environments in … Featured Speaker Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres , which was awarded the … Pulitzer Prize, The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: Some Luck , Early Warning , and Golden Age , Perestroika in Paris , and, …
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