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Historic Sites
… town. A special train whistle alerted parishioners that Mass was about to begin. Anna Sadilek and John Pavelka, the …
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Willa Cather Biography
… increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen … periodical that reaches a broad audience beyond academy, is published three times a year by the National Willa … her novels of prairie pioneering, O Pioneers! and My Á ntonia , but there are a succession of other places found …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… move into town. Red Cloud’s population at the time is 2,500. Charles Cather opens an office selling farm loans and … of the Panic of 1893. Blind Boone, a well-known African American pianist, performs at the Red Cloud Opera House. … it is only a coincidence that passages in his book The Great Gatsby closely resemble a passage in Cather’s A Lost …
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18th International Willa Cather Seminar
… The New School Rachel Olsen, National Willa Cather Center Tracy Tucker, National Willa Cather Center Tracyann Williams, Fordham University “Looking up the Avenue …
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Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding
… constructed by digging a hole in the ground, then laying logs on the banks for walls, placing poles across the top …
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Annotations from the Archive: Emil Frei Windows Are Beautiful Inside—And Out!
… made. Though she postpones making selections, in a June 13 letter, Cather mentions to Mrs. Sherwood that she’s … roof on the church. It seems then, as now, the old church building was being improved and repaired! But we know from … Hospital administration by arriving for an unannounced tour. We can only conjecture about when memorial windows …
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Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection
… thirty original oil paintings by John Blake Bergers (1931-2011), a professional artist who dedicated his life to … Harris joined four hundred other Cather enthusiasts for bus tours of Webster County literary sites, visits to St. … an Omaha benefit performance “for the Cather Foundation building fund,” Bennett wrote. The performance would have to …
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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen
… staff since 2017, when she was hired as a part-time tour guide before becoming our first education coordinator … for meeting visitors and students who come to Red Cloud to learn about Cather. What are the highlights of your job … our organization responded to the pandemic by embracing virtual programs and resources because it gave me a chance …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… Coverage p. 3 Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4 Mailing of Newsletter p. 4 … Dunbar-Odom p. 2 The Prix Femina Americain Award from 1932 for Shadows p. 5 Two Early Reviews of Shadows on the … of Grace AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13 John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15 WCPM announces 1985 trip …
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Spotlight on the Farmers and Merchants Bank Restoration
… and restore the original interior features Retrofit the building with new electrical and mechanical equipment prior … was completed by Carson Stone & Supply of Omaha using 3D scanning technology to replicate the intricate engraving … also involved the replication of two slender sandstone tourelles that once flanked the tower upward to the cornice …
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