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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail

… Cleary, though delivered indirectly. Cleary, who in 1884 moved to Hubbell, Nebraska, where she and her family … to know that the story has rung true to someone besides myself . . . . Anyone who has lived in one of those little … in his 1921 letter, “but when I got into your book- “My Antonia” [sic] - it so interested me that I stayed up half …
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Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home

… Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home March 6, 2023 It was a chance roadtrip with her father after college … generation in the J.L. Miner House, or the Harling House in My Ántonia . He was the grandson of the home’s namesake and son …
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10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather!

… Red Cloud on the Kansas border. You are free to explore or book a guided Prairie Tour to learn more about the natural history … getaway. Our modern loft-style Villa Willa also awaits your visit in the Moon Block above the National Willa Cather …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor

… in anticipation of the publication of his new biography, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather. You can pre-order Taylor's …
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A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society

… Image A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society July 13, … says Wade. “Honestly, it taught me the importance of supporting in a financial way the things you care about.” … Society , Jay and Wade value the sustained impact that planned giving assures. “We know there’s a need and we …
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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… Image Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen January … your job evolution over the past five years? I like to try new things and one of the things I loved about teaching was … programs and resources because it gave me a chance to learn new things. I learned some basic video production skills, I …
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Ongoing Historic Site Restoration & Campaign Updates

… Image Ongoing Historic Site Restoration & Campaign Updates April 22, 2021 Thanks to your many generous contributions to our Campaign for the Future , historic site restoration and preservation work has …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… TITLE: Word Music in "The Ancient People," Part IV of The Song of the Lark  AUTHOR: Stephen Tatum p. 25  TITLE: Shadows on the … Dec.1990) p. 39  TITLE: Willa Cather's "Peter": From Anecdote to Narrative  AUTHOR: Bruce Baker, University of …
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Laura Bush Announces the Willa Cather Campaign for the Future

… house, the railroad depot, and the landscape. It’s one of my favorite places in all of America.” The Campaign for the … which is central to Cather’s most celebrated novel, My Ántonia. Adding to the success of the campaign is a Save … Campaign for the Future to the Willa Cather Foundation, 413 N. Webster, Red Cloud, NE 68970. DONATE NOW …
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Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… novelists of the 20th century. Her first volume of poetry, April Twilights, was published by a vanity press in 1903. Over the … Girl (1940). Cather died from a cerebral hemorrhage on April 24, 1947 and was buried in the Old Burying Ground in …
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