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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … selling farm loans and insurance downtown and rents a story-and-a-half frame house on 3rd and Cedar Streets. Built … of the Panic of 1893. Blind Boone, a well-known African American pianist, performs at the Red Cloud Opera House. …
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18th International Willa Cather Seminar

… twentieth century, and, further, to imagine her work as a product of that urban experience. Willa Cather lived most of … twentieth century, and, further, to imagine her work as a product of that urban experience. This event will also be …
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Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection

… to the Willa Cather Foundation over several years. In 1987, acclaimed actress Julie Harris accepted the invitation of … 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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Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding

… conclude restoration work on the Farmers and Merchants Bank building, we now undertake the work of reinterpreting the … The bank has always been a part of our guided town tour, but the renovated spaces will soon allow our guests to … short a time. From David Helvern’s letter to the editor, 1875: I think [an aid organization] in every township or road …
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Annotations from the Archive: Emil Frei Windows Are Beautiful Inside—And Out!

… is Cather’s letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood, sent on June 7, 1928. Written just three months after her father’s death, … 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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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… oversees the Red Cloud Opera House season of events, plans conferences and seminars, and fosters relationships with … events and discussions coming together for our 68th annual Spring Conference, and the 18th Willa Cather International …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 1968  Editor: Miriam Mountford  TITLE:  Evil, Vision, and Artistic Purity: The Existential Implications of Willa … Conference--1971 p. 1  What Others Say About Us p. 1  New picture of Cather p. 2  Restoration— Grace Episcopal Church … p. 1  Conference Schedule p. 1  A Cornish Childhood p. 2  Gallery Holds "Feelings": Four Lucy Gayheart Paintings by …
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Spotlight on the Farmers and Merchants Bank Restoration

… two elegant vaults that were manufactured by Hall’s Safe & Lock Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. Although the Farmers’ and …
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Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center

… Image Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center … center. The facility, which will be located in Cather’s childhood home of Red Cloud, Nebraska, will provide almost … research center, classroom, expanded bookstore and art gallery, dressing rooms and backstage facilities for the Red …
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Laura Bush Speaks at the Dedication of the National Willa Cather Center

… Dedication of the National Willa Cather Center June 3, 2017 On June 3rd, nearly 300 guests gathered in our Red Cloud … restoration and adaptive reuse of the historic Moon Block building in Red Cloud, Nebraska. The project was made … of scholars, students, and readers young and old.” Public tours led by members of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of …
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