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2013 Spring Conference
… while." These words ring as true today as they did the day Cather penned them, 100 years ago. Our spring conference will celebrate the centennial of Cather's breakthrough novel O Pioneers! in which she "hit … The novel celebrates the transformation of the American prairies by European settlers and marks Cather's emergence …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 02/16/2015
Bladen
… founder of the Lincoln State Journal and friend of Willa Cather, the town of Bladen boasts the home of G.P. Cather and his wife and the Bladen Opera House, where Anna Pavelka was such a regular customer …
Posted: 12/05/2014
Last Updated: 01/29/2015
Small Town Big Dreams
… that sloped down to the highroad." -- My Ántonia by Willa Cather The Hastings/Adams County Convention and Visitors … , Webster County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Willa Cather Foundation, and the Starke Round Barn have combined … the Red Cloud Opera House, viewing the stars on the Cather Prairie and the J.M. McDonald Planetarium, going back in …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 09/23/2014
Joy
… 6, 2008 I have said before that the Middle Ground of the Cather Foundation is indeed broad reaching out from its center in Red Cloud to the far corners of the world. But sometimes, the world comes to Red Cloud. Today … Cloud Opera House Gallery in June, as a part of the annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, scheduled for June 5-6-7. …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/22/2014
Photography Contest
… Image Photography Contest December 1, 2008 Today the Willa Cather Foundation is delighted to announce its involvement … in more than 400 galleries and museums throughout the world; and Tony Bonacci, a rising star whose work is highly …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/22/2014
Spring Conference 2009: A Story of a Photograph
… Special Collections for a gallery exhibit at the Red Cloud Opera House, I came across one image that I liked very much. In it, Willa Cather is holding a small baby, her niece Helen Louise Cather, and they are outside in front of a house with a …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/18/2014
Elderhostel
… Image Elderhostel March 25, 2009 Red Cloud: Willa Cather's Window to the World June 15-19, 2009 Hosting the nation's largest living …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/16/2014
Reflections from the Prairie Writers' Workshop by Timothy Schaffert
… Writers' Workshop by Timothy Schaffert July 24, 2009 Willa Cather taught in a writers' workshop in 1922, at Middlebury … her students saluted her with a witless poem: "Oh Miss Cather, when we gather/ For your talks so wise and clear/ … the many images and emotions evoked in the gallery of the Opera House those evenings have stayed with me beyond Red …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/16/2014
Road Scholar Program: June 4-8, 2012
… Image Road Scholar Program: June 4-8, 2012 March 6, 2012 The Willa Cather Foundation and Road Scholar are proud to invite you … celebrated writers. Red Cloud: Willa Cather's Window to the World Walk in her footsteps and immerse yourself in the …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 09/15/2014
Turn the Page Literary Tour
… Image Turn the Page Literary Tour July 3, 2013 The Willa Cather State Historic Site/Red Cloud Opera House is one of 80 attractions included in the 2013 … Tap Into It, Turn the Page and Wrangle the West. The Willa Cather State Historic Site/Red Cloud Opera House is part of …
Posted: 09/11/2014
Last Updated: 09/11/2014