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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

… and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, … journals, and rare book collections, as well as items belonging to Willa Cather like letters, clothing, jewelry, … to explore individual objects in the collection! For a broad view of the collections, finding aids are available for …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … seven children raised by Charles and Mary Virginia Cather. Cathers had been in the area since the 1700s, and Back … young Willa Cather developed her love for the stage, for musical performance, and for artistry of all sorts. Image …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… interesting dualities. She was intensely engaged with her small hometown, even as she became a traveler of the world; … fine clothes, the fascinating company. The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection contains even more evidence of … patrons would not like. During the sittings, Thérese Bonney photographed Cather and Bakst in the studio, a photo that …
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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

… 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

… Image Image Opera House Thursday, Nov 4, 2021 | 7pm We are excited to welcome Dr. Rebecca Faber to talk about her book, One Small Photo , a collection of poetry and …
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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 … 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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