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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … Following are excerpts of that process gleaned from past newsletters. [Scroll down to read what was entered into the … to hear Regional Postmaster General Clarence B. Gels speak about Willa Cather. Also in the audience were relatives of …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Officers and Board of Governors p. 1  Aims p. 1  Progress Report and Building Fund News p. 1  Publications p. 2  … Programs p. 2  World Wide Interest in Cather p. 3  Annual Conference p. 4  Acknowledgements p. 4  … Red Cloud: Willa Cather's Window to the World June 7-11, 2010 P. 51 Prairie Writers' Workshop July 2010 p. 51 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Serena's Album

… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather was first published in 1951 in The World of … of Gold” speech is a pivotal element in Cather’s late story “Two Friends.” 18-19 M. D. C. Tinkham Left Michael …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Annotations from the Archives: A Map of the World

… recruitment results.  From the very first, archivist Tracy Tucker knew that the map project would have parallel tasks: … to add demographic data—in this case, country of origin—as Tracy discovered it. Because the focus of the map was on …
Posted: 03/31/2026
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Finding Aids

… William Boone, nd) Box 47 Alicia Blue materials     Brockway Paper Collection Date range:  1880–1987 Bulk dates: … Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great 1880 Wm. Cather Jr. Private Library No. 71 Akins, Zoë Interpretations: A Book of … M. Jack and Jill: A Village Story 1887 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 25 Alcott, Louisa M. Jo's Boys: And How …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… true. Every so often, this quote makes the rounds on social media, and no matter how much I wish Cather had said it, I … O'Keeffe? Many readers of Cather's work and her biography immediately connect her with Georgia O'Keeffe—with good …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief

… from the first extant Red Cloud Chief, October 9, 1873 Volume I, No. 15, is the first surviving issue of the Red … local history or, in our case, exploring the life of Willa Cather. We know that Willa Cather held a warm place in her … a regular reader of that newspaper. Decades later as Cather Studies were just beginning, it was through those preserved …
Posted: 09/01/2024
Last Updated: 09/04/2024

Press Room

… public to visit our virtual Press Room often for the latest newsworthy information about our activities, events, and announcements. Please … that follow for contact information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days

… (March 28, 1897), with these observations at the start of Cather's early and prolific career in magazine writing and … literary tastes are, her club standing, her home, her legal studies, how she came to take them up etc. You know what I … bank he is president of. Well I did'nt mean to write you a volume, and of course nothing may come of it. But my …
Posted: 05/19/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Remembering Our Fallen

… for a complete traveling schedule. The author Willa Cather, who gave her commencement speech from the Red Cloud … met him just on the edge of town, and we stopped to chat about the war news. I believe he always wanted to be a soldier. I can see …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022

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