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Crossroads: Change in Rural America
… Webster St. Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States The National Willa Cather Center is excited to announce Crossroads: Change in … How Public Art Reflects and Projects Rural Lives." About the Crossroads exhibit: In 1900, about 40% of …
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Artist Reception for Shane Booth and Book Talk with Alan Wilkinson
… United States Join us five miles south of Red Cloud at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie beginning at 9:30 AM as … Beginning at 4:00 PM, attendees will meet and hear about the work of photographer Shane Booth, who uses an 1867 …
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Catherland by Shane Booth
… your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.” – Willa Cather Using his 1867 studio camera and Voightlander lens to … and remind us of the stories the great Willa Cather told about this magical land, and the people who tamed it. …
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The Song of the Lark Gala Dinner and Performance
… North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States The Willa Cather Foundation’s Gala Dinner and Performance will take … Music Series, will be present to introduce the program. About the Performers Michelle Dean (soprano) is currently a …
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Annotations from the Archive: Our Photo Collections Continue to Grow
… Tracy Tucker aptly illustrate the range of donors to our Willa Cather Foundation Special Collections & Archives. Since our … been mounted to a cardboard backer, no other clues exist about the photographer, the studio, or the occasion. The …
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Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection
… Estate Item Joins the Collection October 20, 2021 The Willa Cather Foundation Art Collection boasts nearly thirty … writing and connected it to her own life. “When she writes about her childhood, you can’t help but think about yours . …
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Annotations From the Archive: John Mallory Bates
… Bates January 27, 2022 Often in Red Cloud, when we speak about John Mallory Bates, we’re speaking of his role at the … recent addition to our archival collections at the National Willa Cather Center, Cather writes to “Mr. Perrin,” whose family …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions
… —from the essay, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," by Willa Cather [ The Nation , September 5, 1923] Thanksgiving, as … things with which we are most familiar that we know least about. Familiarity seems to dull the edge of our curiosity. …
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Annotations from the Archive: Discovering Emanuel Prettyman
… As we begin to commemorate the centenary of One of Ours , Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize-winner for Fiction, we look … newspaper copies, was printed in the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter & Review in 1989. When Dr. Steven Trout … visited Red Cloud to conduct research for his book Memorial Fictions in the mid-1990s, he discovered that in the few …
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Annotations from the Archive: Emil Frei Windows Are Beautiful Inside—And Out!
… windows, both inside or outside the church! We talk about the windows often and their history as memorials to the Willa Cather’s family and friends in the church. We know the …
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