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Historic Sites
… Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront … restoring and caring for the sites that were important to Willa Cather's life and writing. “Every time I talked about … a significant role in Cather’s writings, symbolizing both escape to the world and the way back to Red Cloud. Red Cloud …
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Willa Cather Biography
… 2023 too, it has sponsored celebratory Cather 150 events held all over the country—Los Angeles, New York, … other places found there too: the desert southwest of The Song of the Lark , The Professor's House , and Death Comes for the …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas Garber, former captain in … for the character Thea Kronborg in her next novel, The Song of the Lark . Cather visits Nebraska. 1915 — Cather publishes …
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18th International Willa Cather Seminar
… through Cather's neighborhood! Download our mobile app for images and descriptions of each stop, and follow the map for …
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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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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
… 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
… are listed with the corresponding issue in PDF format. Summer 1957 to Current 1.1 Summer 1957 FIRST ISSUE … Coverage p. 3 Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4 Mailing of Newsletter p. 4 … 11.1 Spring 1967 Editor: Miriam Mountford Title: … 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 … also involved the replication of two slender sandstone tourelles that once flanked the tower upward to the cornice … Cather Foundation, 413 N. Webster Street, Red Cloud, NE 68970. To learn about naming and recognition opportunities …
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