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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… Death Comes for the Archbishop As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed novelist … Comes for the Archbishop , the novel featuring the story set in 1851 of Father Jean Marie Latour traveling to the New … Letters. His memoir Here We Are was published by Penguin Books in May 2020. His previous memoir, The Hue and Cry at …
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MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner
… world and legacy of Willa Cather, while our Collections & Archives at the National Willa Cather Center provide …
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Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder Joins Cather Legacy Society
… Image Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder Joins Cather Legacy Society May 24, 2017 Reflecting back on her … compelled Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder to become a member of the Willa Cather Foundation – and ultimately to join the Cather … half of the 20 th Century. Her stories are the American story. Embedded in her work is a portrait of who we are and …
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Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud
… Image Cather's Thanksgiving postcard to her niece, 1909 … of beauty and sentiment, as spring is in the Old World." —Willa Cather, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," … to American ears. But such injustice is not rare in history. . . . "At last, after twenty years of fruitless …
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Unseen & Underfoot: The Hidden Diversity of the Plains
… accomplished peopleand very proud of what we produced." Tracy Sanford Tucker joined the staff of the National Willa Cather Center …
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"Books Old and New"
… Image The NWCC Bookstore features every book written by Willa Cather or about Willa Cather—and a wide selection of other … over-burdened with dry historical names and dates, for a story full of action and resounding with the ring of swords, …
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Organization History
… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group of …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions
… —from the essay, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," by Willa Cather [ The Nation , September 5, 1923] Thanksgiving, as … upon our many blessings but also the nostalgia, and history, of Thanksgivings past. Thanksgiving seems to have …
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