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National Willa Cather Center

… of Willa Cather View a museum film narrated by Ken Burns Tour Cather's childhood home and six additional historic sites related to her life & …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/07/2026

Finding Aids

… conference notes   WCPM Ashtray     Playing Cards     Keys     NSHS Documents Correspondence   1987 board …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost … suicide would become the basis for Cather's first published story, "Peter," and Annie herself would later serve as …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings August 1, 2023 As has been noted so … she often saved and sent home clippings for friends and family. Occasionally, Cather adds a handwritten note to …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023

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 …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/11/2023

Organization History

… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group of …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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 …
Posted: 07/09/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker

… October 30, 2022 Although Tracy Tucker has been with the Willa Cather Foundation for a decade as Director of … & Curation as part of an internal restructuring. Learn more about Tracy and her new role—and what this means … I don’t think she would want “her things” on display or her biography used to parse her writing. But I do recognize that …
Posted: 10/24/2022
Last Updated: 11/22/2022

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 … walking with my grandparents). They lived in the small town of West Point, so I was already familiar with small …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 08/17/2021

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