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National Willa Cather Center

… the opportunity to fully explore the life and legacy of one of America's most celebrated authors. The Center is the … comes with the unique experience of an embrace from the small community where Willa Cather spent her formative … narratives that are interwoven with priceless historical photographs and artifacts. The exhibit’s name, taken from …
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Finding Aids

… Our museum and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, … Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska.  Subjects: short stories Cather genealogy Willa Cather personal effects … of books, limited editions, and books by other authors but selected by Cather for gifts are included in this …
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Willa Cather Biography

… increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen … periodical that reaches a broad audience beyond academy, is published three times a year by the National Willa … It would be followed in 1918 with the more personal  My Ántonia  where the narrative proper begins with the very …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… interesting dualities. She was intensely engaged with her small hometown, even as she became a traveler of the world; … fine clothes, the fascinating company. The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection contains even more evidence of … patrons would not like. During the sittings, Thérese Bonney photographed Cather and Bakst in the studio, a photo that …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… local organizations or simply had to purchase their own small selection of reading materials. In 1913, the new Red Cloud YMCA created a library in one of its rooms, with material donated by the P.E.O. club, … It's unclear what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is …
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Organization History

… early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small group of Red Cloud citizens, interested individuals, … Cather, great woman, great literary artist, who once was one of ours and now belongs to the great world and to time, … Sites and the collection became known as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection. The Foundation later assumed …
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Virtual Author Series: Dr. Rebecca Faber

… to welcome Dr. Rebecca Faber to talk about her book, One Small Photo , a collection of poetry and one short story that was …
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Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker

… October 30, 2022 Although Tracy Tucker has been with the Willa Cather Foundation for a decade as Director of … & Curation as part of an internal restructuring. Learn more about Tracy and her new role—and what this means … I don’t think she would want “her things” on display or her biography used to parse her writing. But I do recognize that …
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Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… in our archives. The Humanities Internship at the National Willa Cather Center is funded through a collaboration between the … involvement at UNL is as a consultant and fellow at the writing center, where I have worked for the past two years. …
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