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National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather Center offers the opportunity to fully explore the … Take in a performance or exhibit at the Red Cloud Opera House Hike, stargaze, or watch the sunrise and sunset …
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Finding Aids

… by a straight pin.  The maker of the address book and its place of purchase are currently unknown. No dates are … Books   Geographic Names, United States Atlanta (inhabited place) Berkeley (inhabited place) Billerica (inhabited … Life in Relation to the Creative Spirit in Man and Nature 1906  Francis E. Duncan Book sold from Miller & Paine …
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Willa Cather Biography

… from and references to Cather’s own letters. Thus without question, the complex brilliance Skaggs saw in Cather during … more than that, of herself as a person. The character in question is the book's antagonist, Clement Sebastian, who … help secret Nancy, the enslaved girl, away from slavery to freedom in Canada. It concludes in a way reminiscent of …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings August 1, 2023 As has been noted so often before, there exists … time, she was also an active marketer who understood the business of publishing and the need to be "known" by the … research. To request an appointment or learn more, please contact archivist Tracy Tucker at ttucker@willacather.org or …
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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 … citizens led by Mildred R. Bennett, the first biographer of Cather. Upon moving to Red Cloud shortly after Cather’s … the Nature Conservancy gifted the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie in 2006, the Foundation embarked on a different kind …
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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

… 30, 2022 Although Tracy Tucker has been with the Willa Cather Foundation for a decade as Director of Education, she … diverse interests, talents, and work backgrounds, such as prairie botany and gardening skills, photography and graphic … from? Overwhelmingly, it’s come from two major sources: Cather family members and local Red Cloudians. Our …
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Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… outreach project, as well as on the front lines of tour and visitor engagement in our bookstore. Thara is also … a street that was brick when it got closer to the church (a 3 minute walk if I wasn’t walking with my grandparents). … I want to have a job on top of that. I like being busy and building relationships with coworkers. MAGGIE —My internship …
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