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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials … Miner Sherwood. Microfilm roll of Day by Day with the Utah Pioneers, 1847 . Language: The material is in English Access …
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Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… Image Cather's Thanksgiving postcard to her niece, 1909 … Red Cloud was.” If you've ever thought of coming home (or visiting) Red Cloud over the holidays, Cather's dear old house is available for guest lodging . Historic but entirely unfussy, the Cather Second …
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Join Our Team

… Join Our Team Career Opportunities at the National Willa Cather Center The Willa Cather Foundation—formerly the Willa … increase occupancy and restaurant customers at the Center’s lodging properties and newly opened boutique hotel. The … listings on sites such as Google Business, TripAdvisor, Visit Nebraska, etc.  Public Relations and Traditional …
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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy April 9, 2025 RED CLOUD, NE—The National Willa Cather Center celebrated the long-awaited soft opening of … $230,000 of reaching its goal.  In the first ten years of operation, Hotel Garber is projected to add up to ten new …
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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory

… but ,as a child, I was not aware of the hardships.  We always ate well thanks to big gardens, canning, and homegrown … do art when I grew up. I was able to take some lessons from private teachers and workshops. I studied art books and did … In the 1990s, I did a lot of mural work in businesses and private homes. This gave me the opportunity to paint BIG. I …
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Historic Sites

… from the ages of ten to sixteen. The house is described in detail in the short stories “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best Years,” and Cather's attic bedroom is described in detail in her 1915 novel The Song of the Lark. The home was … a diverse schedule that includes theater, music, lectures, gallery exhibits, and much more. The Opera House was donated …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost … canonical American writers, one to be counted with the greats in a period characterized by singularities. When … and its availability to Fitzgerald as he wrote The Great Gatsby is among the great instances of one novelist …
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Collections Policies

… to the  fee schedule , and these are to be used for private study, scholarship, or research use and may not be … made; Copies may not be used “for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research” according to United … Copyright Law, Title 17; Reproduction by the NWCC in no way transfers either copyright or property rights, nor does …
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Willa Cather as Creator: Breaking the Mold and Carving a Place in History

… 11, 2023 | 8 - 9pm Jaffrey Meetinghouse 15 Laban Ainsworth Way Jaffrey , NH 42544 United States Learn More As part of … stainless steel. His works are included in many public and private collections and have been exhibited nationally and …
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Willa Cather and Her Illustrators

… a path for artists to achieve nationwide recognition, in a way that gallery exhibition and private collection could not. Cather and the artists who … art, and that it is worth caring about, than in any other way.” This exhibit explores eight of Cather’s illustrators, …
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