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Anna McCracken Educator Scholarship
… Scholarship To advance our educational mission, the Willa Cather Foundation created the Educator Scholarship in 2015. … Fund, this program allows educators to experience the Cather historic sites, the cultural opportunities, the … Foundation will also arrange complementary guided town and prairie tours for recipients. To apply for the Educator …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/19/2023
Music on the Prairie
… Image Music on the Prairie May 16, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice … Place-Based Identity: A creative-nonfiction workshop focused on connections between self and place With … Artist-in-residency June 2-5, 2011 The 4th annual Prairie Writers’ Workshop will provide participants with the rare …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
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 the publication centenary … and country tours; an evening wildflower walk on the Cather Prairie; the premiere of the NET Television documentary, …
Posted: 05/13/2015
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
Writers Group Makes Its Way to Red Cloud
… A group of longtime writers arrived in Red Cloud and the prairie this September in search of inspiration and … Journey of Thirteen Bereaved Mothers took in all that Cather country has to offer, including tours , a weeklong … coordinator Rachel Olsen joined the writers at the Cather Second Home to lead a lively evening discussion of …
Posted: 10/20/2021
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns
… archives. The Humanities Internship at the National Willa Cather Center is funded through a collaboration between the … special projects behind the scenes. I am trained to give tours, and interacting with guests and helping them utilize … walking with my grandparents). They lived in the small town of West Point, so I was already familiar with small …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 08/17/2021
Leroy Maruhn - Our Miriam Mountford Volunteer of the Year
… Year . Leroy’s stepson Jim Owens, our sites manager since 2019, said that when Leroy started volunteering last year he … and I just want to be in the background,” Leroy insisted. Well, anonymity is not likely to happen in a small nonprofit … Well Drillers Association for several years. Jim has known Leroy all of his life. He was his Sunday school …
Posted: 01/06/2021
Last Updated: 04/26/2021
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
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 …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 02/16/2015
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 memorial to an American author, the Willa Cather …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/16/2014
"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"
… supper based on Cather's Nebraska story, " The Bohemian Girl . " O Pioneers! and " The Bohemian Girl " will be the … as agriculture in other regions, as in Shadows on the Rock, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Death Comes for the Archbishop Cookbooks (The …
Posted: 09/16/2014
Last Updated: 09/16/2014