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Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter Copyright © 1996 by the Willa Cather Pioneer ISSN 0197-663X Memorial and Educational Foundation Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter The Willa Cather Society 326 N. Webster Street VOLUME XXXX, No. 1 Red Cloud, Nebraska 68970 Spring, 1996 Telephone (402) 746-2653 Red Cloud Opera House Restoration/Reuse Study News Items from the The Artist’s Palette: WCPM Director... Early Cather These are exciting times for the WCPM. In Cynthia Griffin Wolff ~ this issue of the Newsletter, there is informa- Massachusetts Institute of Technology tion about the restoration of the Opera House. This is, All great authors must be able to combine the of course, a subject very much on our minds at the meticulous job of training their talents and editing their WCPM. After lunch on this (1996)Spring Conference creations with a relaxation of those monitoring proc- Saturday (May 4), our architect George Haecker, our esses by which repressed, often painful material is consultant John Boomer, and members of the Board routinely prohibited from intruding into ordinary thought. will unveil the schematic drawings and a scale mock- Thus, in Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art, Ernst Kris up of the Opera House. We want to share our excite- makes a telling assertion about the process of aesthet- ment and enthusiasm with our members and apprise ic creativity: them of our progress to date. Conferees should stay Schematically speaking we may view [the creative nearby the luncheon site to hear the latest news on process] as composed of two phases which may be this important project. sharply demarcated from each other, may merge Plans for the forty-first anhual Spring Confer- into each other, may follow each other in rapid or ~lk ence (May 3 and 4, 1996) are set. As always, slow succession, or may be interwoven with each other in various ways. [We often call these INSPIR- we hope for many Cather aficionados and GOOD ATION and ELABORATION; however, in so desig- weather. Next year (1997) the date of Spring Confer- nating them], we refer to extreme conditions: one ence will not be the first Saturday in May but April 25 type is characterized by the feeling of being (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 9) -1- NEWS FROM WCPM (Continued) speare Club" to share the reading of Shakespeare’s works with the Menuhin children, and Yehudi turning and 26, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Willa often to Cather as his favorite confidante -- seeking Cather’s death on April 24, 1947. We made this her advice on art, a career, and on life.., even on his change only after consultation with the John G. Nei- choice of a wife! hardt Foundation, which usually assigns this weekend Throughout December the Nebraska Public for the Neihardt Conference. Those of you who attend 4~ Radio Network celebrated the holidays with both conferences realize that there will be no conflict. seasonal readings of three of Nebraska’s favorite Winter, as far as our tourist season goes, is a authors -- Bess Streeter Aldrich, William Kloefkorn, 4~ slow time of year, but we assure our members and Willa Cather. "A My ,~ntonia Christmas" was read that we are working year-round. Our hours of opera- Christmas Eve. tion are Monday through Saturday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 Applicants for the Norma Ross Walter Scholar- p.m., and Sundays, 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. We are ~ ship are now being evaluated. The $8,000 closed New Year’s Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, and scholarship is awarded annually to a female Nebraska Christmas. Through the years, the hours of operation high school senior who plans to major in English at the ¯ for both the Museum and the WCPM offices have fluc- college of her choice. The first scholarship was tuated, and this has caused confusion. Tours through awarded in 1987. Since that time, five girls have the Nebraska State Historical Society’s buildings are graduated and four more are completing their under- scheduled daily at 9:30 and 11:00 a.m., 1:30, 2:45, graduate years in colleges across the country. These and 4:00 p.m. The building tours begin at the WCPM’s girls have maintained extremely high G.P.A.s and have Art Gallery and Bookstore and include the Museum, been very active in campus life. This year, nearly sixty Childhood Home, Burlington Depot, St. Juliana Catholic girls responded to the scholarship offering. For the Church, and Grace Episcopal Church. When we boast first time the assignment was to respond to one .of that we carry the most complete collection of books by Willa Cather’s short stories. Applicants were asked to or about Willa Cather, we are not exaggerating. This discuss, in 1,000 to 1,200 words, parent-child relation- sounds like a commercial! Nearly every publication ships in Willa Cather’s "Neighbour Rosicky," using concerning Cather is available by mail order through quotations from the text where appropriate. We may US. be able to print the winner’s essay in a future News- letter. The winner and runners-up will be announced 4~Dr. CharlesEpiscopal Peek Church said on the December Mass at 7 thein celebra- Grace at the Spring Conference banquet. tion of Willa Cather’s 122nd birthday. Twenty-four Besides Spring Conference, upcoming events attended Mass that day m an increase from the last ~1~ include "Pastime and Playthings" for elemen- few years. Most of the attendees lunched together tary students at the Cather Childhood Home on May afterwards at the Simple Grace Cafe. On the Sunday 14, 15, and 16; the Prairie Institute, June 3-7, 1996; prior to the birthday we opened the Cather Childhood and the resumption of "An Old-Fashioned School Day" Home for the annual Victorian Christmas Tea. Several at the Little Red Schoolhouse. The school day (for of the WCPM tour guides decorated the house for fourth graders) must be scheduled in advance. The Christmas with a freshly cut tree, homemade orna- Prairie Institute, which is co-sponsored by the WCPM ments, and strings of popcorn. The Prairie Friends and the University of Nebraska-Kearney, will focus on Club provided and served delectable cookies and ’q’he Ecology of Community." We welcome back candies, wassail, and coffee. Events such as this one teachers Dr. Charles Peek, Dr. Mark Eifler, and James are made possible in Catherland because of generous Fitzgibbon. This interdisciplinary course may be taken volunteers. We are grateful to them and we thank for three hours of graduate or undergraduate credit. A them heartily. brochure with a complete course description and Nebraska Public Radio Network (NPRN), with registration information was mailed regionally in mid- ~ the endorsement and support of NPRN man, February. For information call us at 402-746-2653, or ager Steve Robinson, has gone to great lengths to write to the WCPM, 326 North Webster, Red Cloud, help Nebraskans "hear" Cather’s words. Since 1990 Nebraska 68970. NPRN has helped celebrate Willa Cather’s birthday Sally Wagner, Northern State University, South through special programming or readings. This year ~ Dakota, recently spent a day with us learning was no exception. Twice on December 7 and again about the Cather tours and programs so similar on December 10, NPRN premiered John Sorensen’s activities can be arranged for the "OZ" (Frank Baum’s "’Aunt Willa’ and the Menuhins." Sorensen, a Nebras- The Wizard of Oz series) Conference during the ka native who now lives in New York City, wrote, summer of 1997. We will try to keep you posted when directed, and produced this radio special which was details on this are available. underwritten for NPRN by Lincoln (NE) Telecommuni- Opera Omaha has received a grant to support cations. "’Aunt Willa’ and the Menuhins" presents ~1~ the first production-in a trilogy of short operas such anecdotes as the young Yehudi keeping his snow by Minneapolis composer Libby Larsen, who has sled at Cather’s apartment, Cather forming the "Shake- chosen Willa Cather’s short story "Eric Hermann- -2- son’s Soul" as the subject for the first opera in the in the Omaha metropolitan area, and Elizabeth Turner trilogy. It is hoped that additional commissions can be will be providing information about activities at the established to complete the project, which will include University of Nebraska-Lincoln and surrounding Lincoln "Nanette, an Aside" and "Peter." More about this area. Pat Phillips, Director of the WCPM, will remain project can be found in Mellanee Kvasnicka’s article in as the correspondent for local Red Cloud happenings this issue. and continue to provide information about events on Hopefully you have seen Joan Acocella’s the national and international scene as they cross her 4~ article in The New Yorker magazine. If you desk. With this staff in place, the Newsletter should be have not, find the November 27, 1995, issue. Joan better able to keep readers informed of Cather-related worked long and hard on this piece and attended the events in Nebraska. Spring Conference in 1994 to learn more about Willa In this issue Mellanee Kvasnicka reviews a new Cather and to have an opportunity to visit with Cather project sponsored by Opera Omaha and the Col lege of readers and scholars. Willa Cather was also men- Fine Arts at UNO to develop an evening-length opera tioned in The New Yorker in Wendy Wasserstein’s based on three short stodes by Willa Cather. She also "Jill’s Adventures in Real Estate or I Can Get It for You reports on Cather’s appeal to behaviorly impaired at 3.2," a play in nine scenes, in the October 16, 1995, students at Omaha South High School.
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