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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 … literary tastes are, her club standing, her home, her legal studies, how she came to take them up etc. You know what I … bank he is president of. Well I did'nt mean to write you a volume, and of course nothing may come of it. But my …
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Annotations from the Archive: Herbaria of Webster County
… lacked many of the common plants to be found on the Central Plains and to the West. Thankfully, others were quicker to … the director of—the Department of Natural History and Geology at Doane College. The 1891 letter answers a letter … from Swezey about classification of wildflowers of the Great Plains did become accepted within the scientific …
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Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections
… of materials pulled from the collections of the National Willa Cather Center and the Webster County Historical Museum. Our … the general store and the lumberyard. In our Cather-focused world, we often think about Red Cloud as a sort of time …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions
… skies, and frosty nights. In this newest part of the New World autumn is the season of beauty and sentiment, as … —from the essay, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," by Willa Cather [ The Nation , September 5, 1923] Thanksgiving, as …
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Annotations from the Archive: Our Organizational History
… of 1957, Mildred Bennett and the founding members of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial felt that their work in Red Cloud … aims were: To perpetuate an interest throughout the world in the work of Willa Cather To identify and restore to …
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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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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail
… our collections in your research, please contact archivist Tracy Sanford Tucker. Researchers may schedule in-person appointments to …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thornton Oakley
… Howard Pyle; she had sent him an inscribed copy of The Troll Garden in 1906, referencing the Cather children's love of …
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Visions Seen in the Air: An Invitational Exhibit
… in Red Cloud will be a celebration of 150 years of Willa Cather’s life and work. As part of that celebration, we will … memory are on full display as she so poignantly creates a world that is both Red Cloud and the fictional Sweet Water. …
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