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Annotations from the Archives: New Year, New View
… floors were being painted under my feet. But I have taken a good deal of pleasure in fixing the place up, for it is …
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Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Christmas Traditions
… From the Archives: Red Cloud's Christmas Traditions December 10, 2025 In Webster County during Willa Cather’s … of Red Cloud, held an annual supper and dance on Christmas night. The Red Cloud volunteer fire department also gave a … forget and cease to love, but her childhood is eternal. (December 17, 1893) Later, this memory would fuel the ending …
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Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud
… obscurity. We have come to regard this great feast day of ours as a thing that came about because of a general … The story once in Lincoln's ear, and the thing was done. He saw how precious such a day would become to the … of all the states fell in line, and the day has become one of the facts of our National existence.” Cather often …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist
… country focus on educating patrons and the general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the … the questions she gets most often. How do you pronounce Cather? According to Henry Blackman Sell in a short article … frequently that I keep a hard copy at home and at work. Did Willa Cather say, "Anybody can love the mountains, but it's …
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Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources
… different ways to access primary source materials for the classroom. Our online collections search is a quick way for … and Engagement, Rachel Olsen, can arrange for your class to take part in these activities; you can contact her … sources. Image Student FAQ sheet Of course, with a whole classroom generating FAQs, the next step is the development …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather in Santa Fe
… Cather's circa 1924 map of Santa Fe Annotations from the Archives: Cather in Santa Fe November 7, 2023 In the 1910s … who would like to visit the National Willa Cather Center archives, please make an appointment with archivist Tracy …
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Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Photographers
… Image Bicycle Races Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Photographers March 6, 2025 Think …
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Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up
Image Rationing Poster, United State Office of War Information, 1943 Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up February 7, 2025 Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, Or do without. This week, the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery opens the traveling exhibit …
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Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts
… Image A Lost Lady Ad Image Pearl Keating Speaks in Des Moines Image Dorothy Farnum, screenwriter of A Lost Lady … films of a high moral character and "eliminating the undesirable" ( Webster County Argus , September 13, 1923 ). … (right), the Omaha World-Herald covers the tour's stop in Des Moines, Iowa, where audiences said they wanted more …
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Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day
… He knew he was not the only farmer boy who wished himself tonight beside the Marne. . . . Lying still and thinking fast, … army. One's manners wouldn't matter on the Marne tonight, the night of the eighth of September, 1914. There was … the poem was written in May 1915 and published in Punch in December 1915, the poem took on a life of its own as one of …
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