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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

… Stephen, 1906-1987 Then or Tien? c/o Todd, Frank L. Trowbridge, Augustus Tyrrell, William Undset, Sigrid Van … Mildred Bennett Collection documents the organizational and scholarly work of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial’s … her family. Some pre-publication copies of books, limited editions, and books by other authors but selected by Cather …
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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 in print) … publish there; it serialized her first novel,  Alexander's Bridge , in 1912. Once she had completed her second novel …
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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; … answers. Old schoolmates, distant relatives, kindly people whom I had known in some part of the United States. . … to Houghton Mifflin's Alverda Van Tuyll, "In the first place, let me tell you how delighted I am that you get a …
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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

… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group of … the Nature Conservancy gifted the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie in 2006, the Foundation embarked on a different kind … expand educational outreach, and establish an endowment to support long-term preservation of the historic sites. …
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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

… Image Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker October 30, … & Curation as part of an internal restructuring. Learn more about Tracy and her new role—and what this means for the organization and for our Collections and Archives! You have many diverse interests, talents, and work …
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Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… and helping other employees with various tasks like mail ordering, stocking books, and even watering flowers.  …
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