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Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud
… with her family. In a letter to Elizabeth Wolfe Huffmann, on June 13, 1945, Cather recalled her last holidays …
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Finding Aids
… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials … and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, … Correspondence between Jane Pope Geske, a bookseller with Niobrara Books in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Mildred Bennett, …
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Join Our Team
… Join Our Team Career Opportunities at the National Willa Cather Center The Willa Cather Foundation—formerly the … its founding in 1955, the Foundation has been headquartered in Cather's hometown of rural Red Cloud, Nebraska. Our … 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
… a general manager, sales and event manager, housekeeping staff, and a head chef. The hotel restaurant will include … made possible by gifts from many generous individuals and foundations. These private gifts helped leverage grant … Nebraska Passport program. MAKE A DONATION Learn more about the Hotel Garber project —All gallery images, below, …
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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory
… am grateful that this show can be shown in the town where I started my life since most of the pieces of art happened in … or stenciling with no end in mind. Something usually will get my imagination going and in the end it actually is a … nothing was told to me and my imagination put the story together. Hopefully I tell the story in the way the painting …
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Historic Sites
… dedicated to an American author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the … to sixteen. The house is described in detail in the short stories “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best Years,” and … Cather’s attic bedroom retains the wallpaper she selected while she worked in Dr. Henry Cook's drugstore. In …
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Willa Cather Biography
… George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic portrait … 1921. Rinehart-Marsden Studios. Today Willa Cather is one of the most important American novelists of the first … matriculation requirements.) Having just arrived from a small town, she took full advantage of the capital's …
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Collections Policies
… add $100 per image Translations: Contact the WCF for pricing. Microforms and Facsimiles: Contact the WCF for pricing. Request for Collections Access Loading… …
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Willa Cather as Creator: Breaking the Mold and Carving a Place in History
… “Willa Cather as Creator: Breaking the Mold and Carving a Place in History” on Friday, August 11 at The Amos Fortune … discuss Cather’s ascent to success, from her rebellious nature as an adolescent to her prominence as a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Near Cather’s final resting place in Jaffrey, Alston and Olson will discuss their …
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Virtual Author Series: Ladette Randolph
… with writer Ladette Randolph as she discusses her novel Private Way . Set in 2015, protagonist Vivi Marx winds up off the …
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