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Artist Reception for Shane Booth and Book Talk with Alan Wilkinson
… to capture the prairie in its spring splendor. Saturday's events will continue with an artist reception for Shane Booth and a book talk with Alan …
Posted: 06/06/2016
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Drama Writing Workshop with A.P. Andrews
… Jul 9, 2015 | 5pm - Sunday, Jul 12, 2015 | 4pm Red Cloud Opera House 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 … and will culminate in a staged reading in the Red Cloud Opera House! Our 8th annual Prairie Writers' Workshop will … - Workshop Friday 10 - 12:30 - Workshop Friday 1:30 - 3 - Cather tour Friday 5-8:30 pm - Workshop Saturday 10-12:30 - …
Posted: 01/07/2015
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
My Ántonia by Illusion Theater
… Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States My Ántonia , Willa Cather’s seminal novel of immigration on the prairie, comes to life on the RCOH stage in an award-winning … of people and life. Theater-goers will experience firsthand Cather’s tale of the people and land of the Great Plains. …
Posted: 12/12/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Rothenberger Book Talk and Signing
… Visit,” and senior editor and contributing author of “A Prairie Mosaic: An Atlas of Central Nebraska’s Land, … by Library Journal . He considers himself a student of the prairie and popular culture of the Great Plains. Scottsbluff in '62 is available in the National Willa Cather Bookstore or online . Plan to attend the Opera House …
Posted: 11/21/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
My Ántonia at 100: The Ongoing Story
… Special Events Friday, Jun 1, 2018 | 2 - 3pm National Willa Cather Center 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 … Cloud Community A special session of the 63rd Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference will focus on life in Red Cloud, … which we had come to live, was a clean, well-planted little prairie town, with white fences and good green yards about …
Posted: 03/14/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
2015 Road Scholar
… and study cruises to walking, biking and more. The Willa Cather program attendees will have the opportunity to … the small Western town that influenced her work. Discuss Cather's short stories and novels with a university … Highlights Enjoy visits to the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie and nearly 20 historic sites around Red Cloud. Gain …
Posted: 11/04/2014
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Willa Cather's Birthday Celebration and Open House
… Special Events Friday, Dec 7, 2018 | 4 - 6pm National Willa Cather Center 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States Join us in celebrating Willa Cather’s birthday! The National Willa Cather Center and Red … often to visit family and friends and enjoy her beloved prairie. The open house will run from 4:00-6:00 p.m. and …
Posted: 11/16/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Herbaria of Webster County
… belonged and invent names of our own for them." When Willa Cather described her prairie childhood in "The Education You Have to Fight For," … collection was the personal botany book of Frances Smith Cather, Willa Cather's "Aunt Franc," and shows heavy use. …
Posted: 06/17/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions
… the essay, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," by Willa Cather [ The Nation , September 5, 1923] Thanksgiving, as … seems to have been especially meaningful to Willa Cather. She often visited family in Red Cloud at that time … teeming with buffalo, deer, antelope, wild geese, ducks, prairie chickens and quail. During the late summer a flock …
Posted: 11/20/2019
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: On Writing Themes
… the blue hour deepens to black. During these afternoons, summer seems endless, but it is then that children are jarred from summer reveries and returned to school. In just such a … dollars. Lord Byron, one of our greatest poets wrote a beautiful elegy on a dog, who ever wrote any thing on a cat. …
Posted: 08/16/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023