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Willa Cather Timeline

… paternal grandparents, William and Caroline Cather. The house, called Willow Shade, is located in an area near Back … Gere, Cather visits Brownville, Nebraska. A feature story about Brownville titled "The Old River Metropolis" was … House. (It would not reopen until after the Willa Cather Foundation begins its restoration efforts beginning in 1991 …
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18th International Willa Cather Seminar

… Image International Seminar Wednesday, Jun 21, 2023 | 12am - Friday, Jun 23, … We hope you will make plans to attend the 18th Willa Cather International Seminar in the neighborhood where Cather lived …
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Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding

… will soon allow our guests to explore topics related to Lyra and Silas Garber, their lives and legacy in Red Cloud, and the broader …
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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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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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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… Olsen January 15, 2023 Rachel Olsen has been part of the Willa Cather Foundation staff since 2017, when she was hired … her husband and daughter. You have been in Red Cloud since 2015 and employed by the Willa Cather Foundation since 2017. … an Opera House show or to look at contemporary art in our gallery or visit the prairie, I hope they understand that …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 2.1  Spring 1958  Editor: Mildred R. Bennett  Officers and Board … Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip … 40.1  Spring 1996  Editor: John J. Murphy  TITLE: The Artist's Palette: …
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Spotlight on the Farmers and Merchants Bank Restoration

… also involved the replication of two slender sandstone tourelles that once flanked the tower upward to the cornice … of the pyramidal roof. The new stones replace the original tourelles that were damaged to the point of instability, … utilized as one of many attractions on the guided town tour of Red Cloud, owing to its connection to Silas and …
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Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center

… Image Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center March 25, … plans to build the National Willa Cather Center, a public museum, archive, and arts and cultural center. The facility, … Visit www.WillaCather.org to learn more. More About the National Willa Cather Center (NWCC): Please see …
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Laura Bush Speaks at the Dedication of the National Willa Cather Center

… the country contributed to the campaign. Executive Director Ashley Olson noted, “With the completion of this project, our rich …
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