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Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy April 9, 2025 RED CLOUD, NE—The National Willa Cather Center celebrated the long-awaited soft opening …
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Nick Powers, Our On-Staff Nebraska Master Naturalist

… and Nebraska Master Naturalist Nick Powers, Our On-Staff Nebraska Master Naturalist Take a Guided Prairie Tour … University of Nebraska. Nick has been with the Willa Cather Foundation since January 2022 and is currently pursuing a … to get better at the Prairie Tour, particularly talking about the plants and animals that live on the prairie. I …
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Volunteer

… Volunteer Image The Willa Cather Foundation was started in 1955 by Mildred R. Bennett and a … for our visitors. Volunteers will work with Foundation staff to establish a schedule and task list.  Volunteer … for all new volunteers. To become a volunteer or learn more about volunteer opportunities with the Willa Cather …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Red Cloud. The MLA International Bibliography lists almost 1300 publications on Cather and her works appearing since … and this was a decision that transformed her career. Building upon her solid foundation as an energetic … letters.  A Lost Lady, published in 1923, is something of tour de force example of the sort of fiction Cather called …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… home of the bride’s mother, Rachel Boak, in Virginia. 1873  — Charles Cather’s brother George and his wife Frances A. … Register of Historic Places and open year-round for guided tours. Winter 1883 to 1884  — Willa Cather attends a … Cather’s brother James Cather is born. Silas Garber begins building the Farmers and Merchants Bank in downtown Red …
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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 … Princeton. In 1944 she received the gold medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.” 50 Volunteers, 34 …
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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… becoming our first education coordinator in 2019. In the fall of 2022, she was promoted to director of education and … of my job is our Teacher Institute program that takes place each summer. We launched this last year, and it was so … 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

… Members p. 1  Societies p. 2  Publications p. 2  Donors p. 3  The Register p. 4  Carrie Miner Sherwood Profile p. 5  … and Board of Governors p. 1  Aims p. 1  Progress Report and Building Fund News p. 1  Publications p. 2  Pittsburgh p. 2  … Marker Dedication p. 1  National Award p. 1  Catherland Tours p. 2  Restoration Projects-Cather House, the Depot p. …
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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

… October 30, 2022 Although Tracy Tucker has been with the Willa Cather Foundation for a decade as Director of Education, she … & Curation as part of an internal restructuring. Learn more about Tracy and her new role—and what this means for the …
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