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National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather … a museum film narrated by Ken Burns Tour Cather's childhood home and six additional historic sites related to her life & … Home Guest House Browse the bookstore and gift shop Guided Tours Hours of Operation American Bittersweet The Life & …
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Finding Aids

… c/o Todd, Frank L. Trowbridge, Augustus Tyrrell, William Undset, Sigrid Van Vechten, Carl Vermorcken [see Moorhead] … Bennett Book Inventory Box 17—Mementos, Photos, Gifts, Notes, including: Map of Grand Manan Drawings … Notes April Twilights BK-50-301 Willa Cather 1903 1st ed.   Three small manuscript corrections in ink in Cather's hand …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … While the reading and understanding of Cather's twelve novels and various other works are the primary attraction, … unconscious. It must, indeed, be a way of living" (78). The Early Years, 1873-1890 Cather was born in Back Creek Valley, …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings August 1, 2023 As has been noted so often before, there exists within … in response to a request for a photo to accompany  The Song of the Lark,  Cather writes to Houghton Mifflin's Alverda Van …
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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

… Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group of local … expand educational outreach, and establish an endowment to support long-term preservation of the historic sites. … Potter Block into Hotel Garber. The campaign also aims to support the addition of collections and program staff, …
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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

… backgrounds, such as prairie botany and gardening skills, photography and graphic design, and you have worked as a … you remember that we were first called the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, and so a great many of Red Cloud’s oldest … keep things—her fan mail is a great example—but living in small New York spaces, keeping must have been hard. I think …
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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 … special projects behind the scenes. I am trained to give tours, and interacting with guests and helping them utilize … kid I thought of my Grandma and Grandpa’s house as a summer home. This house was bright yellow, on the paved part of a …
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