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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored … Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn … On December 7, Cather’s 150th birthday will be fêted with guided holiday tours—including of the Childhood Home—and a …
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Serena's Album

… political issue of the 1890s. His advocated reform is “Suppression of liquor traffic.” The temperance movement was … of the Civil War years and after. Edward Short is expressing his disagreement with the populist “Free Silver” … Thomas of Nuckolls County” hired to teach the “grammar room” at the school in Red Cloud for the 1888-1889 school …
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Finding Aids

… to Willa Cather like letters, clothing, jewelry, artwork, manuscripts, address books, journals, and sales ledgers for … publication may be restricted in those cases, and those seeking publication of copyrighted materials should consult a … Honorary Degree     Watercolor sketch TX-50-1000-015 Grand Manan Watercolor Edith Lewis   Photograph OBJ-50-1000-016 …
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Guided Seasonal Tour

… Image Guided Seasonal Tour Ántonia's Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles … reading programs designed around a single NEA Big Read book, with an aim to broaden our understanding of our world, …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… writing a biography of Cather. He is co-editor of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (Knopf, 2013), and of the … Cather’s Virginia is based in Gore, Virginia, the first home of one of America’s greatest writers. Pulitzer … the complexities of her Virginia birthplace—including the stories of those who inhabited what she described as “that …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … create the Willa Cather statue. Alston is the first African American artist to have a sculpture in the National Statuary …
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Historic Sites

… Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront of of … a diverse schedule that includes theater, music, lectures, gallery exhibits, and much more. The Opera House was donated …
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Willa Cather Biography

… P. Stout’s Cather Among the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative … precluded by a proviso in Cather’s will. But The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (2013), edited by Andrew … an explosion, a pest" (Politics 7), listened to these stories and stockpiled the details, not knowing the use she …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail

… other items from our collections in your research, please contact archivist Tracy Sanford Tucker. Researchers may … our collections or request digital access to materials by contacting her at ttucker@willacather.org. Sources: …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… access to specific articles and special features of each issue of the Review since its first publication in 1957. … 1964  Editor: Miriam Mountford  Aim and Interpretation of Catherland p. 1  Plow is a Symbol of Cather Museum p. 1  … Susan J. Rosowski, University of Nebraska-Lincoln p. 51  Also in this issue:  WCPM Director's News column covers …
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