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Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days
… (March 28, 1897), with these observations at the start of Cather's early and prolific career in magazine writing and editing: “Miss Willa Cather, the editor of the Home Monthly , is not … I'm told. Of course the magazine is the worst trash in the world, but it is trash they want and trash they pay me for …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail
… Image Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail August 22, 2022 Our archives are home to not only Willa …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thornton Oakley
… to our collection separately, though both originated with Willa Cather’s niece, Helen Cather Southwick. Both had come to us … would have more ‘drive’ in the market of a motor-mad world, than a book of essays, surely.” Sergeant was, by this …
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Annotations from the Archive: Our Organizational History
… personalities that surrounded Willa Cather and sometimes disagreed about how to preserve her legacy. The Willa Cather …
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Annotations from the Archive: Herbaria of Webster County
… of Webster County June 17, 2021 "We were living in a world of mysterious flowers that had never been put into … belonged and invent names of our own for them." When Willa Cather described her prairie childhood in "The Education You …
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Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections
… materials that were central to our understanding of early Red Cloud and Willa Cather’s adolescence here, as well as her … 2022. You can see selections from the exhibit in an online gallery HERE and for more about Crossroads: Change In Rural …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions
… and "The Origin of Thanksgiving" article, directly at the links above at the Willa Cather Archive at the University …
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Annotations from the Archive: On Writing Themes
… the blue hour deepens to black. During these afternoons, summer seems endless, but it is then that children are … dollars. Lord Byron, one of our greatest poets wrote a beautiful elegy on a dog, who ever wrote any thing on a cat. … Written while at the University of Nebraska, it was printed in the student publication The Hesperian , and …
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Annotations from the Archive: Discovering Emanuel Prettyman
… As we begin to commemorate the centenary of One of Ours , Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize-winner for Fiction, we look forward … Sweeney . Dr. Rebecca Faber’s dissertation, All the World Seemed Touched with Gold , which explores this source …
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Annotations from the Archive: Emil Frei Windows Are Beautiful Inside—And Out!
… the windows often and their history as memorials to the Willa Cather’s family and friends in the church. We know the … quality stained-glass windows of this type anywhere in the world. The windows that were designed for the Holy Family …
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