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Cather Legacy Society
… Cather Legacy Society A Planned Gift With Lasting Impact … legacy and help further our mission. A planned gift to the Willa Cather Foundation can provide you or your estate with … her family’s Red Cloud, Nebraska roots while delving into literary tourism to understand more about the geographic …
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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 … to grow heritage tourism in Red Cloud around the life and literary legacy of Willa Cather, the Hotel Garber project …
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Nick Powers, Our On-Staff Nebraska Master Naturalist
… Nebraska Master Naturalist Take a Guided Prairie Tour August 6, 2024 Our visitor services coordinator and expert … 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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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … While the reading and understanding of Cather's twelve novels and various other works are the primary attraction, … an explosion, a pest" (Politics 7), listened to these stories and stockpiled the details, not knowing the use she …
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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 … not proclaimed as being bound for lofty things by the local newspaper. Only sixteen years old, Cather enrolls at the … by Knopf. 1936 — Knopf publishes Cather’s only book of essays, Not Under Forty . In the book’s introduction, …
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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 … she preached. Miss Cather (1873-1947) echoed in many of her novels the same theme—the spirit and courage of pioneer … Cather Foundation? Enjoy browsing past issues HERE (this early Willa Cather Foundation Newsletter eventually became …
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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen
… 15, 2023 Rachel Olsen has been part of the Willa Cather Foundation staff since 2017, when she was hired as a … and Author Series programs, oversees the Red Cloud Opera House season of events, plans conferences and seminars, and … visitors and students who come to Red Cloud to learn about Cather. What are the highlights of your job evolution …
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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 … 27.1 and 27.2 LITERARY ISSUE 1983 Editor: Mildred R. Bennett TITLE: Grace Church, Red … 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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Joseph Kyle’s Last Visit Leads to Unexpected Bequest
… This summer, we received notice of an unexpected and generous bequest from Dr. Joseph D. ‘Joe’ Kyle. The news came from … 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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