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Historic Sites

… Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa Cather … by the Willa Cather Foundation in 1960 and opened to visitors in 1967. Many of the furnishings came from the … in 1897, is the building Cather returned to when visiting friends and family in Red Cloud. In 2021-2022, the …
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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 Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United … Red Cloud. 1913  — Cather’s first “Nebraska novel,”  O Pioneers! , appears in print. Cather agrees to write S. S. …
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18th International Willa Cather Seminar

… schedule of events is available below. Highlights will include: Margo Jefferson and Elizabeth Kendall in conversation, … 23. Our closing reception and limited coffee service is included in your registration fee; all other meals are on your … Center Tracy Tucker, National Willa Cather Center Tracyann Williams, Fordham University “Looking up the Avenue through …
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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

… programs, oversees the Red Cloud Opera House season of events, plans conferences and seminars, and fosters … programming and outreach? There are so many great events and discussions coming together for our 68th annual … Seminar will take place this summer, as well. There are events in the works outside of Red Cloud—stay tuned!—and I’m …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … Jay Yost p. 31  TITLE: Cather and Her Stars: Negotiating a Culture of Celebrity in the 1890s  AUTHOR: Michael Schueth … p. 45  2007 Cather Spring Conference Highlights Cather and Material Culture p. 48  Director of Education and Archives …
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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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