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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and … of Willa Cather’s birth; the goal was to have the first stamps offered for sale in Red Cloud on December 7, … Day of Issue stamps. Ten Red Cloud organizations and almost fifty volunteers from eleven Nebraska towns helped the …
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Guided Seasonal Tour
… Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts … drawn readers into this classic novel for more than 100 years. As part of our NEA Big Read programming, guests are … W. 3rd Street This is the site where Anna Sadilek Pavelka’s first child was baptized and where Anna was married. This …
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Cather Sesquicentennial
… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are commemorating acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s … Collection in the U.S. Capitol on June 7. Cather is the first Pulitzer Prize-winner and the twelfth woman … sixteen-month restoration —its first in more than fifty years. This National Historic Landmark was Cather’s …
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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!
… You can, too—in any season or time of year, whether for the first time or on a return trip. We offer a variety of guided … classic novel My Ántonia , published in 1918, was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia
… September 4, 2024 Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts … drawn readers into this classic novel for more than 100 years. Just as gripping are her portrayal of obstacles such … the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial in Red Cloud, one of her first efforts was to bring Life magazine to Webster County …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting
… status as a literary pilgrimage destination for more than fifty years. Just six months after the house reopened on Willa … with a sloping ceiling, like my 'rose-bower' in our old first home. Do you remember?" —Cather in a 1945 letter to …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… to any other American writer. While Cather moved away from Nebraska in 1896, her parents Charles and Mary Virginia … conservators from the Ford Conservation Center in Omaha, Nebraska. The project was supported by the State of Nebraska – Department of Economic Development and the Willa …
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The Potter Family
… Street business district. Later J.Q. and Jacob opened the first grist mill west of Beatrice after they constructed, … War was on now and my father volunteered and spent three years in the service until the close of the war. He was … Orleans; N. F. Potter, Alma; twenty-six grandchildren, fifty great grandchildren.” (By Attorney Jas. S. Gilham) …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on Cather's work. This critical interest in Cather …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway
… related to Cather’s life and writing. The Center’s mobile app also offers a 30-minute narrated tour of the Willa … It will be faced with original brick material to match the appearance during the period the Cather family resided in …
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