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National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather … watch the sunrise and sunset at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Explore scenic country roads on a Cather "Country … stories of the people who passed through the station. Learn More …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials … author Willa Cather. Our museum and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, … Hotel Sherry (Chicago, IL) Shoreham Hotel (DC) Parker House (Boston) The Beaconsfield (Boston) The Puritan …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … itself. As Skaggs also maintained, Cather "fashioned fictions of such intricacy and resonating depth that all of … from cancer. A private funeral was held in New York, and a memorial service was conducted at Grace Episcopal Church in …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings August 1, 2023 As has been … the most pertinent portion of the review or article. Our collections include hundreds of such clippings, some … part of the United States. . . . From this experience I learned a lesson. The better the advertising, the worse it …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… Annotations from the Archives: The Library July 11, 2023 Creating a culture of … Cather reading to her younger siblings is significant; our collections contain a number of photos of her reading to …
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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

… archives. The Humanities Internship at the National Willa Cather Center is funded through a collaboration between the … good ones (with Beauty and the Beast costumes and elephants walking down Red Cloud’s main street), and I enjoy reading … special projects behind the scenes. I am trained to give tours, and interacting with guests and helping them utilize …
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