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Annotations from the Archive: Business Papers

… Papers July 20, 2021 When the prohibition on publication of Willa Cather’s letters expired, a wealth of new Willa Cather … investments, charitable gifts, and income earned from her writing, both foreign and domestic, that, when combined, …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail

… the Archives: Fan Mail August 22, 2022 Our archives are home to not only Willa Cather’s letters, but to many of the … family struggled to survive, was the author of hundreds of stories and poems, the proceeds of which helped to keep the … Collection Kate M. Cleary: a Literary Biography with Selected Works , by Susanne George-Bloomfield …
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Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection

… Estate Item Joins the Collection October 20, 2021 The Willa Cather Foundation Art Collection boasts nearly thirty … she was fourteen. From that time onward, she loved Cather’s writing and connected it to her own life. “When she writes …
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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 … a book of essays, surely.” Sergeant was, by this time, also writing for New Republic , and the sketches she was creating …
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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 … retiring in 1877 when she was almost ninety. In addition to writing “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” Hale is perhaps best known …
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Visions Seen in the Air: An Invitational Exhibit

… the very end of the road-making West; the men who had put plains and mountains under the iron harness were old; some … nothing could ever bring it back. The taste and smell and song of it, the visions those men had seen in the air and …
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Tracy Sanford Tucker

… Tracy Sanford Tucker joined the staff of the National Willa Cather Center in 2012 as Education Director; in 2022, she … with a Master's degree in American literature and creative writing, with a specialization in Great Plains Studies. She …
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"A Walk in Her Footsteps" Weekend Tour Package

… sites and sounds that changed American literature. Take a detour from the scramble of urbanity and absorb the rolling …
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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… Olsen January 15, 2023 Rachel Olsen has been part of the Willa Cather Foundation staff since 2017, when she was hired as a … in Women’s Studies and was a full-time faculty member and writing center director at Oklahoma City Community College …
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Our New Archives Intern: Chris Wolak

… digitizing, researching Anna Pavelka, and fact-checking and writing citations for our tour narratives. Currently, Chris … project at the archive has two parts. First, to transcribe Cather’s address book and a ledger in which she kept track … larger organization. I immediately thought of the National Willa Cather Center. I have been curious about what Tracy’s …
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