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Collections Access & Policies

Collections Access & Policies The National Willa Cather Center houses the earliest Willa Cather museum collections and archives, and we continue to make new collection materials available to researchers. To access our collections, browse our Finding Aids …
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Echoes of the Archbishop

… to offer a special add-on tour of the Acoma Pueblo and Sky City Cultural Center on the morning of November 10th … includes: A guided tour of the pueblo Admission to the Sky City Cultural Center and Haakú Museum Camera fee for …
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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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Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… feast day was originated by a private individual, and a woman at that. Above all her other interests and duties, the … people, how invaluable would be its associations. That man of mighty proclamations first proclaimed "Thanksgiving … with her family. In a letter to Elizabeth Wolfe Huffmann, on June 13, 1945, Cather recalled her last holidays in …
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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… Tourism Development began studying the feasibility of a new hotel in Red Cloud nine years ago. An economic … Much like the character she inspired, Lyra Garber was well known for her charm and hospitality. The Garbers often hosted … elevator to provide visitors with access to a new permanent exhibit,  Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud . The …
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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

… home to the National Willa Cather Center and its museum and archives dedicated to preserving the legacy of Willa Cather. …
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Willa Cather Biography

… own letters to researchers. These letters are held in archives throughout the country and the world and, until …
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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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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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