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Meet Joanna Blitch: Illustrator of Special Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa

… Image Meet Joanna Blitch: Illustrator of Special Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa September 23, 2020 Last winter, we conducted a search …
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Autumn Offerings for Educators

… energized to create new and increased ways to deliver our resources to our constituents—and for which we have received … them. "I want visitors to feel the impact of what they learn here, even if they can't actually be here," Rachel … to enhance your class’s experience reading Willa Cather or learning about Nebraska history."  This year, our touring …
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Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators

… additional information or  to plan or book your group tour: Rachel Olsen, Education Coordinator at  rolsen@willacather.org or 1.866.731.7304 (office) …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… Image Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson December 8, 2019 Jerry and Susan Anderson live in the Des Moines, Iowa … stock; Cather’s books about that time—like My Àntonia and O Pioneers! and One of Ours— allow us to picture what life …
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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud

… Tracy Tucker, Education Director: ttucker@willacather.org Rachel Olsen, Education Specialist: rolsen@willacather.org …
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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 thing, avoiding the … Helianthus annuus  and  Helianthus petiolarus . Mormon pioneers described finding sage and sunflowers in 1850s Utah …
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2019 Artist-in-Residence, Richard Dickson, On What Inspires His Rural Photography

… and buildings in and around Red Cloud and Webster County. Using Victorian-era and traditional photographic processes … So I learned about Cather and sought out her other works, contacted the Foundation, and on a return visit to New … I used early photographic processes, hand coating paper and contact printing the negative, or used a special paper in …
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Meet Intern William Kelly

… at the Burlington Depot, beginning to read through Willa Cather’s work, and exploring the prairie and rural environs. … your interests, and what brought you to the Willa Cather Foundation? My upbringing split time between Omaha, …
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Suicide Grave

… suicide grave in My Antonia  was described by Willa Cather as a little island of tall red grass. Francis … under and under until it had almost disappeared from the prairie; when all the fields were under fence, and the roads no longer ran about like wild things, but followed the surveyed …
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Free Events happening at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference

… Image Free Events happening at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference May … auditorium. Following Bob Ferguson’s talk, join us for an artist’s reception at 5:00 p.m. for Nebraska-born artist Shane Booth, …
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