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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… Taylor Image "Death Comes for the Archbishop" Image "Chasing Bright Medusas" Special Events Discussion #4: Death Comes for the …
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MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner
… Image MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner October 25, 2019 “You have a little Willa Cather right here in Bladen,” Antonette Turner told a crowd … to share a love of Willa Cather and local Webster County history, and a new and growing friendship between the sixth …
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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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Serena's Album
… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather … photographer, of German parentage. He appears in an 1899 volume entitled Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive … the coming school year; Adella L. Hurlbutt would have had teaching responsibilities as well. She was one of the two …
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Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud
… of beauty and sentiment, as spring is in the Old World." —Willa Cather, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," … her first job as editor of The Home Monthly in Pittsburgh , Willa Cather wrote “The Origin of Thanksgiving” under the … to regard this great feast day of ours as a thing that came about because of a general sentiment and through a general …
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Unseen & Underfoot: The Hidden Diversity of the Plains
… Helicotylenchus, the "spiral" nematode, collected at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie A special science exhibition in the … believes most people only know half of the story. Unseen and Underfoot was conceived by Powers and …
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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
… early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small group of Red Cloud citizens, interested individuals, … Cather, great woman, great literary artist, who once was one of ours and now belongs to the great world and to time, … Sites and the collection became known as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection. The Foundation later assumed …
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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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