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National Willa Cather Center Scholarship
… value of living in a rural community in which the Red Cloud Opera House is located. FINANCIAL DATA One $1000 scholarship will …
Posted: 03/12/2024
Last Updated: 03/12/2024
The Potter Family
… the Red Cloud sawmill south of the Webster Street business district. Later J.Q. and Jacob opened the first … they still came once or twice a year after we came there in about 1875 but were always friendly. . . . After my father … power. The dam is strongly constructed upon a rock foundation, as lasting as the rock of Gibraltar. The mill is …
Posted: 08/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/27/2024
Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal
… Image Grant Reynard's "Straw Stack" Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal August 14, 2022 The archives are … The processes used in cataloging, arranging, and caring for collections are the science; they are reproducible and … who touched the collection: not merely the subjects of the collections themselves and their families, friends, and …
Posted: 02/21/2024
Last Updated: 02/21/2024
Virtual Author Series: Jacob Friefeld & Angela Bates
… history during our first author series of 2024! Join us as we talk with Jacob Friefeld, author of The First … The First Migrants from our online bookstore here . About Jacob Friefeld Jacob K Friefeld is the director of the … Nicodemus, Kansas. She has served on the Kansas Historical Foundation board of directors and is a member of the …
Posted: 12/28/2023
Last Updated: 01/19/2024
Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined
… role in the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about the West and those who inhabited it. Imprinting the … by Dr. Randall Griffe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, visitors to the Red Cloud Opera … with a grant from the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation and support from the Claire M. Hubbard …
Posted: 09/20/2023
Last Updated: 01/12/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on Cather's work. This critical interest in Cather …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
For Writers
… which she created the communities in half of her novels. About the Residency Past Cohorts The Willa Cather Foundation is a not-for-profit organization created in 1955 …
Posted: 12/27/2023
Last Updated: 12/27/2023
Annotations from the Archive: The Willa Cather Childhood Home
… of planning, research, and parallel work on both the house itself and the collections that have been housed within … many resources from our archive to search for clues about how the house was constructed, updated, and used over … home in the 1880s Inside, we returned to first principles: Mildred Bennett's notes about the home's interior, based on …
Posted: 12/03/2023
Last Updated: 12/05/2023
Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading
… Image Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather Special Events Thursday, Dec 7, 2023 | 7 - 8pm … , and Bellow’s There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction , also a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag, Debriefing , was published by …
Posted: 10/04/2023
Last Updated: 12/05/2023
Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined
… Events Friday, Dec 15, 2023 | 1 - 2pm Red Cloud Opera House and Art Gallery 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States Join us for a lecture about Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and … with a grant from the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation. Support for this lecture comes from the Claire …
Posted: 12/04/2023
Last Updated: 12/04/2023