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Drama Writing Workshop with A.P. Andrews
… Image Prairie Writers Thursday, Jul 9, 2015 | 5pm - Sunday, Jul … Andrews' Nebraska Cycle is a series of ten plays about life in the rural Midwest, and includes Abby in the … - Workshop Friday 10 - 12:30 - Workshop Friday 1:30 - 3 - Cather tour Friday 5-8:30 pm - Workshop Saturday 10-12:30 - …
Posted: 01/07/2015
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Virtual Author Series: Pam Houston
… | 7pm Transport yourself to the Colorado Rockies, Nebraska prairie, and beyond during our conversation with author Pam … of place-based writing and her connections to Willa Cather, both as a writing professor and a fan. Register for the event here. Learn more about Deep Creek on our product page : the memoir is …
Posted: 02/28/2022
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Native Grasses of the Apache Highlands
… Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States The National Willa Cather Center welcomed artist Matilda Essig of Sonoita, … a grasslands community not unlike the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. ON DISPLAY October 4, 2019, to January 9, 2020 … RECEPTION Friday, October 4, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. ABOUT THE ARTIST Matilda Essig is a traditionally trained …
Posted: 09/16/2019
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
"A Walk in Her Footsteps" Tour & Theater Package
… House on Saturday, October 26, lodging for two nights, guided Willa Cather-related site tours, and more! *Your tour package includes: Two nights in … Webster County; A gourmet picnic basket provided from Hometown Market to bring to the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie …
Posted: 09/10/2019
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions
… the essay, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," by Willa Cather [ The Nation , September 5, 1923] Thanksgiving, as … things with which we are most familiar that we know least about. Familiarity seems to dull the edge of our curiosity. … teeming with buffalo, deer, antelope, wild geese, ducks, prairie chickens and quail. During the late summer a flock …
Posted: 11/20/2019
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: On Writing Themes
… out until the sun dips, finally, below the western-most prairie hills and the blue hour deepens to black. During … and returned to school. In just such a moment, Willa Cather’s earliest known letter was written at the end of … two years had passed since Cather confided to Mrs. Stowell about her reluctance to give up scientific inquiry in the …
Posted: 08/16/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Herbaria of Webster County
… belonged and invent names of our own for them." When Willa Cather described her prairie childhood in "The Education You Have to Fight For," … are sent me." In fact, some suggestions from Swezey about classification of wildflowers of the Great Plains did …
Posted: 06/17/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
"A Walk in Her Footsteps" Weekend Tour Package
… breakfast); A VIP tour of our Special Collections & Archives and "American Bittersweet" exhibit; A guided …
Posted: 09/18/2019
Last Updated: 03/21/2023
Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen
… January 15, 2023 Rachel Olsen has been part of the Willa Cather Foundation staff since 2017, when she was hired as a … visitors and students who come to Red Cloud to learn about Cather. What are the highlights of your job evolution … or to look at contemporary art in our gallery or visit the prairie, I hope they understand that our organization is …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/07/2023
William Norris Buffett Gifts Millions for Creation of Hotel Garber
… Buffett sprinkled many Cather quotes throughout his book Grubbed Stumps, Fixed Fence, Pa To Town: Our Nebraska Farm 1871-2010 …
Posted: 04/20/2022
Last Updated: 02/03/2023