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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather
… Welcome to the home of Willa Cather Willa Cather Willa Cather is one of the most important American … Shop Online The Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens for Tours First restoration in more than a half century On Willa …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … numerous Cather-related historic properties, expansion of educational programming and exhibits, development of visitor … help the National Willa Cather Center provide classroom resources for teachers, preserve historic sites associated …
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Finding Aids
… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials related … Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, historic photographs, art and decorative arts, journals, and rare … Pen holder Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-1 Small metal purse Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-2 …
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Guided Seasonal Tour
… Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for their … Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of Red Cloud. More than that, Cather's memorable … success as a farm family, it also symbolizes the immigrant stories and rich multiculturalism that shaped the Great …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration
… Though associated with the Great Plains, American author Willa Cather spent much of her childhood in Frederick County, … which receives generous support from the Marion Park Lewis Foundation. Andrew Jewell , a highly respected Willa Cather …
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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 … of its soil, and I did not find them. And so I wrote O Pioneers! .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, … literature and correspondence remain the subject of scholarly inquiry. Her writing has been translated into more …
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Historic Sites
… Bank In 1889, the Farmers and Merchants Bank was erected by Silas Garber, a former Union Army officer who helped to found Red … of Nebraska from 1875–1879. Governor Garber and his wife, Lyra Wheeler Garber, lived in Red Cloud while Willa Cather …
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Willa Cather Biography
… George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic portrait … 1921. Rinehart-Marsden Studios. Today Willa Cather is one of the most important American novelists of the first … matriculation requirements.) Having just arrived from a small town, she took full advantage of the capital's …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail
… Fan Mail August 22, 2022 Our archives are home to not only Willa Cather’s letters, but to many of the letters that she … in California. Our collections also contain a sampling of Willa Cather’s own filing system. She kept certain letters, … Elizabeth A. Shannon Collection Kate M. Cleary: a Literary Biography with Selected Works , by Susanne George-Bloomfield …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… under the Issues tab, where individual tables of contents are listed with the corresponding issue in PDF format. … Conference Speaker--James Miller p. 3 People, Places and Things: Gifts, Publications, etc... p. 3 Celebration-the … TITLE: On One of Ours AUTHOR: JoAnna Lathrop p. 1 TITLE: Something That Endures AUTHOR: Sister Lucy Schneider, …
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