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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen
… oversees the Red Cloud Opera House season of events, plans conferences and seminars, and fosters relationships with … events and discussions coming together for our 68th annual Spring Conference, and the 18th Willa Cather International …
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Anna McCracken Educator Scholarship
… Scholarship To advance our educational mission, the Willa Cather Foundation created the Educator Scholarship in 2015. … Cather Foundation will also arrange complementary guided town and prairie tours for recipients. To apply for the Educator Scholarship, …
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Music on the Prairie
… Image Music on the Prairie May 16, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the … insight about nonfiction writing while visiting the prairie town that inspired Nebraska’s Pulitzer Prize-winning author, … from the land and its rare forbs and grasses. Guided tours of Cather’s childhood home and other sites relating to …
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60th Annual Spring Conference to be held in Red Cloud
… 5-7, 2015, celebrating groundbreaking of the National Willa Cather Center, the Willa Cather Foundation’s 60th year, and … will also feature papers and panel discussions; guided town and country tours; an evening wildflower walk on the Cather Prairie; the …
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Writers Group Makes Its Way to Red Cloud
… Journey of Thirteen Bereaved Mothers took in all that Cather country has to offer, including tours , a weeklong stay at our historic lodging properties , … Julie Hester characterized Red Cloud as a “Scrappy town on the prairie/carved out of sod and bittersweet.” We’d …
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Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns
… archives. The Humanities Internship at the National Willa Cather Center is funded through a collaboration between the … good ones (with Beauty and the Beast costumes and elephants walking down Red Cloud’s main street), and I enjoy reading … special projects behind the scenes. I am trained to give tours, and interacting with guests and helping them utilize …
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Leroy Maruhn - Our Miriam Mountford Volunteer of the Year
… Image Leroy Maruhn - Our Miriam Mountford Volunteer of the Year January … wanted this to be a complete surprise to him and his wife, Janet Maruhn. Janet is Jim Owens’s mother and works as a tour guide at the …
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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud
… Image Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud October 25, 2019 In early October 2019, sixteen Road … reviews: “This was a delightful combination of literature, history, and staying at the Cather Second Home in Red Cloud …
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Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012
… Workshop: May 17-20, 2012 October 26, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the … from a professional writer, the workshop incorporates tours of seven local historic sites relating to Cather's … Friday, May 18 9:30 & 11:00 a.m. or 1:30 & 3:00 p.m. Town tour of Cather historic sites 6:00-9:00 p.m. Writing …
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Elderhostel
… Walk to dinner 7 p.m. : Orientation Lectures and Class discussion : Novels: My Ántonia, A Lost Lady , Death … Field trip guides Commuter Option: $250 (This option includes everything except for lodging and breakfast.) To …
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