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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 life and legacy of one of America's most celebrated authors. The Center is the heart of the largest collection of …
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Finding Aids
… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest … to the life and works of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. Our museum and archival collections, housed in … agreement 1840 Document TX-50-1000-069 Charles F. Cather biography Stationery OBJ-50-1000-070 Willa Cather's …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's … Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … seven children raised by Charles and Mary Virginia Cather. Cathers had been in the area since the 1700s, and Back …
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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 … 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
… 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
… example, and other events, and focus instead on curating exhibits and developing interpretation at the historic … & Archives come from? Overwhelmingly, it’s come from two major sources: Cather family members and local Red … challenge, but since so many of our collection objects are displayed within our historic sites, it matters to me that …
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Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns
… outreach project, as well as on the front lines of tour and visitor engagement in our bookstore. Thara is also … walking with my grandparents). They lived in the small town of West Point, so I was already familiar with small towns before I came to Red Cloud. My Mom had left to go back …
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