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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy
… its opening week Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy April 9, 2025 RED … that helped rehabilitate an empty historic commercial building into a boutique hotel and event center. Leaders … of Willa Cather, the Hotel Garber project raised more than $7 million in charitable gifts and grants. Paired with an …
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Nick Powers, Our On-Staff Nebraska Master Naturalist
… guided Prairie Tour will have new enhancements thanks to Nick's certification Image Nick Powers, Visitor Services Coordinator and Nebraska Master …
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Volunteer
… Volunteer Image The Willa Cather Foundation was started in 1955 by Mildred R. Bennett … historic properties relevant to the life and works of Willa Cather. Today, the Willa Cather Foundation continues to rely … include greeting visitors, providing information on tours, giving directions, handing out printed materials, and …
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Willa Cather Biography
… periodical that reaches a broad audience beyond academy, is published three times a year by the National Willa … be imagined (until Cather did herself one better with My Mortal Enemy in 1926), and its availability to Fitzgerald as he …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… 1870 — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … on Grand Manan Island off the coast of Maine. 1926 — My Mortal Enemy is published. Cather visits Red Cloud to see her sick …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … eventually became the scholarly journal, Willa Cather Review ) and issues of the informational News from Cather …
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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen
… Cloud Opera House season of events, plans conferences and seminars, and fosters relationships with educators from area … 68th annual Spring Conference, and the 18th Willa Cather International Seminar will take place this summer, as well. There are …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… Miriam Mountford Title: Prototypes of Characters in My Ántonia Recognized at Spring Banquet AUTHOR: Victor P. Hass … Spring Conference p. 3 Fourteen Years of Progress p. 3 Commemorative Cather Stamp p. 3 …
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Joseph Kyle’s Last Visit Leads to Unexpected Bequest
… Park in Richmond, Virginia, and later joined the staff of Historic Hanover Tavern and taught at … believed motivated his father to remember the Willa Cather Foundation in his estate plan, Alex Kyle said, “My dad was … to celebrating literature and its way of educating people about early life on the Great Plains.” With his bequest, Dr. …
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Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker
… 2022 Although Tracy Tucker has been with the Willa Cather Foundation for a decade as Director of Education, she was … & Curation as part of an internal restructuring. Learn more about Tracy and her new role—and what this means for the … that I’m only able to do this with the help of some great staff members and volunteers! Apart from your job …
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