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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

… and family members. Language:  The material is in English Access and Use:  No restrictions on access; users should acquaint themselves with copyright … Red Cloud, Nebraska.  Subjects: short stories Cather genealogy Willa Cather personal effects Related Materials:   …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost … by singularities. When Philip Roth died in 2018, New Yorker editor David Remnick held that “he was in … of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny enclave of French …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… a great many of them required courteous personal answers. Old schoolmates, distant relatives, kindly people whom I had … too much." Sitting for a portrait was, indeed, a lengthy process. When Cather sat for a portrait by Leon Bakst for … I am going, unwillingly, out to Chicago to receive a 'gold medal' from several women. Alfred says one can't refuse …
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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

… sites, caring for our collections, and managing the maintenance and use of our historic sites. And I would be … an amazing thing, but they still require time, money, maintenance—just like physical archives do—or those digital … like surprises, so getting ahead of problems with proactive maintenance and housekeeping is my biggest priority. I read …
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Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… fixing any errors. Currently, I’m reviewing the archive’s photo collection and then digitizing them for future use. … are, unfortunately, missing. But there are some really good ones (with Beauty and the Beast costumes and elephants … I wasn’t walking with my grandparents). They lived in the small town of West Point, so I was already familiar with …
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