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2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees
… Willa Cather Center Scholarship winner is Brooks Armstrong (Red Cloud High School) Norma Ross Walter was a frequent visitor to Red Cloud and lifelong Cather fan. The …
Posted: 07/07/2023
Last Updated: 07/16/2023
The <i>Ties</I> That Bind
Image Image Image Image An Art Exhibit by Betty Kort Art Gallery Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | 12am - Saturday, Aug 19, 2023 | 12am We are delighted to bring a special exhibition by Hastings artist Betty Kort to the newly restored Burlington Depot! The Ties …
Posted: 04/25/2023
Last Updated: 07/16/2023
A Lost Lady
Image Vintage cover of A Lost Lady A Lost Lady Book Club Resources "If her image flashed into his mind, it came with a brightness of dark eyes, her pale triangular cheeks with long earrings, and her many-coloured laugh. When he was dull, dull and tired of …
Posted: 05/03/2023
Last Updated: 07/14/2023
Virtual Author Series: Alex Kava
Image Author Series Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Acclaimed mystery novelist Alex Kava will be on hand to talk about her impressive career as a Nebraska author who writes in the tradition of other Nebraska mystery novelists such as …
Posted: 07/13/2023
Last Updated: 07/13/2023
Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann
… Register Online Now Join us for an engaging conversation about Nebraska memoir with Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne … it. If you are interested in the same "human stories" Willa Cather illuminated in her own work, you will enjoy this free … monarch groves of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled …
Posted: 07/08/2023
Last Updated: 07/13/2023
Virtual Author Series: Tracy Daugherty
… Street. This novel explores the friendship between Willa Cather and Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. Two different writers … by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. About the Author Tracy Daugherty was born and raised in …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 07/13/2023
My Ántonia
… Image Vintage cover of My Ántonia My Ántonia Book Club Resources In this symphonically powerful …
Posted: 05/03/2023
Last Updated: 07/12/2023
Annotations from the Archives: The Library
… difficult and costly; it only stands to reason that reading materials like books and magazines might be considered a … of the Auld Library and the purchase of books. Charles Cather was elected the first president of the library board. … what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is significant; …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/11/2023
Music in Willa Cather's Writing
… Image Music in Willa Cather's Writing While not a musician herself, Willa Cather was an avid musical consumer! … herself as she is growing up in Moonstone, Colorado, a fictional community based on Cather’s hometown of Red Cloud, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/09/2023
John William Boone & Cather
… Boone & Cather "for I shall be the first... " In Cather’s My Ántonia , narrator Jim Burden encounters the ancient Roman … is "On Working the Land." From the Georgics comes the My Ántonia 's epigraph, “Optima dies . . . prima fugit.” The …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/09/2023