Willa Cather Memorial Prairie in Red Cloud - Nebraska.
Strong wind at the Willa Cather Prairie in Red Cloud - Nebraska. This kind of grass is called Broam, typical from Midwest Nebraska. The 610 acre Willa Cather Memorial Prairie preserves in example of the native grassland that once covered Nebraska.
Experience Nebraska: Red Cloud
Through support from the Center for Rural Affairs, we interviewed young residents in Greater Nebraska to hear what makes their community a distinctly attractive place to live, work and play. This and other Experience Nebraska videos were shot and produced in June 2016, part of the Good Living Tour storytelling project, made possible by Nebraska Department of Economic Development, Humanities Nebraska, Nebraska Department of Economic Development, Peter Kiewit Foundation, Center for Rural Affairs, Pinnacle Bank, Nebraska Loves Public Schools, Union Pacific Railroad, Viaero Mobile, Huber Chevrolet and Sandhills Energy.
Here’s what the residents of Red Cloud had to say.
View the full complement of 2016 Experience Nebraska videos here:
Video: Chris Dinan, Lindsey Yoneda
Edit: Lindsey Yoneda
Interview: Andrew Norman
Animation: Bryan Findell
Music: Our Home by The Hottman Sisters
Thanks to:
Red Cloud Community Foundation Fund
Willa Cather Foundation
Gary Thompson Agency
South Central State Bank
Red Cloud Area Chamber of Commerce
City of Red Cloud
CPi (Cooperative Producers Inc.)
Casey's General Stores
The Red Cloud B&B at the Kaley House
Republican Valley Arts Council
Red Cloud Heritage Tourism and Economic Development
Fat Fox's
Jarred McCartney
News 5 at 10 - The National Willa Cather Center / March 25, 2014
The Willa Cather Foundation will be building a center to honor the famous author. It's a multimillion dollar project to recognize Cather's legacy. The National Willa Cather Center will be a nearly 20 thousand square foot public museum. It will include a research center, classroom, and an expanded bookstore and art gallery. It will also have three residences to house visitors.
Documentary filmmaker and lifelong Cather enthusiast, Ken Burns, says the center will have something for everyone. More than 10 thousand tourists and Cather fans visit Red Cloud each year. The center will occupy Red Cloud's historic Moon Block building following a restoration of the 1886 structure.
News 5 at 10 - Foundation Hopes To Have National Cather Center Ready By 2016 / June 24, 2014
Just in the nick of time, the Willa Cather Foundation announced today they've met a challenge grant deadline.
Raising nearly 6 million dollars to help build the National Cather Center in Red Cloud, a place to honor the legacy of the Nebraska author. But, with 900,000 dollars to go they're not done yet.
Ashley Olson, Executive Director: It's very exciting. This project has been in the planning phases for several years.
Cather's name is synonymous with Red Cloud.
Ashley Olson: We feel she is one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century.
Willa Cather spent just a short part of her life in Red Cloud, but those years left a lasting impact.
Tracy Tucker, Education Director: The suicide grave, the cemetery and all the places she writes about in the novel, they're really here.
From the annual Willa Cather Conference to town tours that include her childhood home, Cather's legacy attracts over 10,000 people to Red Cloud each year.
Tracy Tucker: There's various things in here, telegrams... there's some manuscript things here.
With nowhere to display many of Cather's belongings, thousands of artifacts currently sit in storage.
Tracy Tucker: These storefronts will be renovated into the National Willa Cather Center and will display nearly 5,000 of her personal and career related items.
In the final stage of fundraising, The Cather Foundation hopes the Center will be ready by 2016.
Tracy Tucker: Create that state of the art archive space so that we can continue to care for these items so they are around for another lifetime.
Items that illustrate intimate details about the woman who some thought was uptight and stuffy.
Tracy Tucker: We have a number of her items of clothing here and some of her purses and you can see they're anything but plain.
In the end, they hope to do more than just honor the author... but carry on her legacy.
Ashley Olson: Hopefully get more people interested in reading her work and planning a visit to central Nebraska.
The foundation has 900,000 more dollars to raise. They're hoping to start preliminary construction efforts this fall.
If you'd like to contribute, you can send donations to the Willa Cather Foundation in Red Cloud.
Red Cloud FFA I Believe in the Future of Ag
2017 Good Living Tour | Red Cloud Recap
The Good Living Tour returned to Red Cloud’s pastoral Starke Round Barn setting for its fourth stop, with Brad Hoshaw Music & the Seven Deadlies, Lester Junction, The Ramparts and Edem Soul Music. Watch our recap video from a beautiful Saturday in southern Nebraska.
Video by Lauren Farris, Andrew Dickinson | Edit by Lauren Farris
The Good Living Tour is possible thanks to presenting sponsor the Nebraska Department of Economic Development with generous support from Peter Kiewit Foundation, Nebraska Community Foundation, Humanities Nebraska, Nebraska Cultural Endowment, Pinnacle Bank, Nebraska Loves Public Schools, Union Pacific Railroad, Center for Rural Affairs, and the Nebraska Arts Council.
Special thanks to the Red Cloud Community Foundation Fund, Willa Cather Foundation, Red Cloud Chamber of Commerce, City of Red Cloud, South Central State Bank, Webster County Community Hospital Foundation, Heritage Bank, Casey's General Stores, The Red Cloud B&B at the Kaley House, Republican Valley Arts Council.
Learn more at goodlivingtour.com
Red Cloud Local Chapter Grant Recipient
Nebraska Stories | Sowing The Prairie
More stories: nebraskastories.org
Harvesting Nebraska's native prairie seeds.
“Sowing The Prairie”
Since the Civil War, nearly 99 percent of Great Plains grasslands have succumbed to agricultural development. The mission of the Prairie Plains Resource Institute is to restore native prairies where ever possible and they're doing it with the help of volunteers.
Enjoy the beauty of the prairie
Take the time to slow down and reconnect with the ones you love in Nebraska. Visit Nebraska. Visit Nice. #NebraskaNice #SpringCreekPrairie
A Body of Excellent Work - Ron Hull Remembers
A look back at the lendary career of Ron Hull, whose love of history, literature, and people has shaped the culture of NET and public broadcasting for over 60 years.
Nebraska Stories | Shadows on the Screen & More
Shadows on the Screen, Saving Sacred Seeds, Sowbelly Rams, Nebraska's Deadliest Storm, Art & Literature at the Castle
“Shadows on the Screen”
A filmmaker returns to his hometown of Grand Island and discovers rare footage of the town from the 20's, 30's and 50's. He hosts a premiere at the Grand Theatre in Grand Island, revealing the newly restore footage featuring rare scenes of everyday life.
“Saving Sacred Seeds”
With the blessing of tribal elders, Omaha tribe member Taylor Keen plants indigenous heirloom seeds with the hope that someday everyone in his tribe could be self-sustaining by planting their own corn, bean, squash, and sunflower crops from those sacred seeds.
“Sowbelly Bighorns”
Take a trek into Pine Ridge Country with Todd Nordeen of Nebraska Game and Parks Commission to learn how wildlife experts are working to bolster the Bighorn sheep population in Sowbelly Canyon.
“Nebraska’s Deadliest Storm”
A look back at the cluster of deadly Easter tornados of 1913 that ripped through Omaha, Ralston, Yutan and Otoe, called Berlin at the time. The twisters were blamed for 168 deaths in Nebraska and Iowa with hundreds injured. The Omaha, Yutan and Berlin tornadoes today rank as the three deadliest in Nebraska history.
“Arts & Literature at the Castle”
A trip to the Joslyn Castle for the Nebraska Arts and Literature Festival where 150 years of the best of Nebraska Art and Literature is being celebrated. Featuring a variety of works from artist Grant Tyson Reynard to writings by author Willa Cather, audience members interact with the art, discuss literature and experience an immersive theater production at the historic Joslyn Castle.
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Willa Cather | Wikipedia audio article
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Willa Cather
00:00:53 1 Early life and education
00:03:46 2 Career
00:06:42 2.1 1920s
00:08:00 2.2 1930s
00:09:11 3 Personal life
00:12:49 4 Writing influences
00:16:05 5 Literary style and themes
00:19:07 6 Later years
00:22:40 7 Legacy and honors
00:24:02 8 Bibliography
00:24:11 8.1 Nonfiction
00:24:45 8.2 Novels
00:25:31 8.2.1 Essays and articles
00:25:43 8.3 Collections
00:26:35 9 Documentary
00:26:51 10 See also
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Willa Sibert Cather (; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918). In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I.
Cather grew up in Virginia and Nebraska, and graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33 she moved to New York City, her primary home for the rest of her life, though she also traveled widely and spent considerable time at her summer residence on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick.