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National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National … Hike and picnic, star-gaze our dark skies, or watch the sunrise and sunset at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Explore scenic country roads on a Cather "Country …
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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

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … her fine study of Willa Cather's fiction  After the World Broke in Two , the late Merrill Maguire Skaggs … letters are held in archives throughout the country and the world and, until recently direct quotation from them—as …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… even more evidence of these dichotomies in Cather's nature. A large collection of Cather's press clippings and … to Houghton Mifflin's Alverda Van Tuyll, "In the first place, let me tell you how delighted I am that you get a …
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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

… 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 … 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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