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National Willa Cather Center

… years. She once said, "I was always being pulled back into Nebraska.” You will be, too. What You'll Experience Museum … that grows outside Cather’s childhood home in Red Cloud, Nebraska, explores and embraces the complexities of Cather’s … advancing Willa Cather’s legacy. The film was directed by Nebraska-born documentarian Ingrid Holmquist, and narrated …
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Finding Aids

… Jr., Private Library No. 22 Alcott, Louisa M. Old-Fashioned Girl 1887 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 24 Alcott, … 1901 n/a Cummins, Maria S. The Lamplighter: Or An Orphan Girl's Struggles and Triumphs n/d n/a Cushing, Mary Watkins … Cather March 1912 Magazine Publication Tx-50-4000-F60 "The Bohemian Girl" Original Publication in  McClures Magazine …
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Willa Cather Biography

… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in  Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the … 2023 As has been noted so often before, there exists within Willa Cather so many interesting dualities. She was … some collected in scrapbooks by Carrie Miner Sherwood, and others retained by friends and family and donated to our …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… 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; … involvement with the Auld Library, and from Willa's own writing, just how much the Cather family valued literature …
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Organization History

… of her short stories. For the first twenty-five years of operations, the Foundation amassed a large museum collection … the novel  My Ántonia  the  Grace Episcopal Church , which houses a pair of stained-glass windows donated by Cather in … later assumed responsibility for day-to-day management and operation of the Willa Cather State Historic Sites in 1994 …
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Virtual Author Series: Dr. Rebecca Faber

… Image Image Opera House Thursday, Nov 4, 2021 | 7pm We are excited to welcome …
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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 … & Curation as part of an internal restructuring. Learn more about Tracy and her new role—and what this means … diverse interests, talents, and work backgrounds, such as prairie botany and gardening skills, photography and graphic …
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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 University of Nebraska and the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. What prompted you to … special projects behind the scenes. I am trained to give tours, and interacting with guests and helping them utilize …
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