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National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather … or watch the sunrise and sunset at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Explore scenic country roads on a …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Ray Collection was acquired by the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial & Education Foundation in the 1990s and contains …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but … other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… they too began keeping her clippings from their own locale to share with Cather when they next were in touch.  …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… , 23 November 1916).  With the local newspaper and many others supporting the initiative, in August 1916, Mayor … of the Auld Library  and the purchase of books. Charles Cather was elected the first president of the library board. … what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is significant; …
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Organization History

… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation … Carrie Miner Sherwood in 1962 An early turning point in the history of the Foundation came in 1978, when its Cather … Sites in 1994 through a contractual arrangement with History Nebraska. Preservation work continued in subsequent …
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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

… NWCC in 2012, my role as Education Director also included management of the archives and collections. However, with … donors, and we soon needed to move to a digital collections management system, update our policies and procedures, and … of the Archives a finite project…and how do you manage to do it all around everything else? Well, …
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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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