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Volunteer Profiles: Don & Teri Theobald
… 2020 Don and Teri Theobald live in one of the Willa Cather Foundation's Moon Block apartments and often volunteer at … lawyer at Theobald Law Office. "We appreciate the support we get from the Red Cloud community," they said. … and Red Cloud Opera House as volunteers? The Willa Cather Foundation had a call for volunteers and we felt it was …
Posted: 11/03/2020
Last Updated: 11/04/2020
Meet Joanna Blitch: Illustrator of Special Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa
… person whose judgement you trust, who will give you honest feedback, is also vital. How did you hear about this … of these sketched ideas for each story and received feedback. For some of the stories, the committee loved my …
Posted: 09/23/2020
Last Updated: 09/24/2020
Autumn Offerings for Educators
… 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 … important scholarship programs each year: Several student scholarships , with different requirements and deadlines, …
Posted: 08/17/2020
Last Updated: 08/25/2020
Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators
… Image Image Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators February 7, 2020 Visit Red Cloud—Our unique small town on the prairie and meet Willa Cather, Nebraska’s foremost citizen and author of O …
Posted: 02/07/2020
Last Updated: 02/13/2020
Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… has retired from a career in education law. Both avid Willa Cather enthusiasts, the Andersons have traveled to various settings around North America that appear in Willa Cather’s novels. They recently spent time in Red Cloud where … at a beautiful October sunset on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. You recently visited Red Cloud. What brought you …
Posted: 12/05/2019
Last Updated: 12/30/2019
Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud
… Image Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud October 25, 2019 In early October 2019, … engaged in a special program planned through the National Willa Cather Center. With a well-planned itinerary offered … and visited the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. They also experienced our “ Country Tour ” on board a vintage trolley …
Posted: 10/23/2019
Last Updated: 11/21/2019
Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains
… dozens of blossoms. They made a golden ribbon across the prairie. Occasionally one of the horses would tear off with … using the colorful blooms as trail markers came to be. Cather directly referenced the trail on the Laramie Plain of … seem to me the roads to freedom." When you visit Willa Cather's Red Cloud or the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie …
Posted: 08/27/2019
Last Updated: 08/29/2019
2019 Artist-in-Residence, Richard Dickson, On What Inspires His Rural Photography
… Willa Cather's writings and the land which she loved. His photographs taken this summer will be featured in his … when my mother bought me my first camera; I still have some photographs taken then. It is only in the last several years …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 08/01/2019
Meet Intern William Kelly
… executive director, Ashley Olson. While in Red Cloud, he is living in the apartment at the Burlington Depot, beginning to read through Willa Cather’s work, and exploring the prairie and rural environs. …
Posted: 07/01/2019
Last Updated: 07/03/2019
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 …
Posted: 12/05/2014
Last Updated: 02/05/2018