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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … in more than fifty years. A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa Cather Childhood Home was … historic sites and landscapes related to any other American writer. While Cather moved away from Nebraska in …
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Own A Piece of History: Willa Cather Sculpture
… be placed in the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. —To place an order, please click HERE — 12" bronze … Park and Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza in Omaha, the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln and the World Food Prize …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost … suicide would become the basis for Cather's first published story, "Peter," and Annie herself would later serve as …
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Annotations from the Archive: The Willa Cather Childhood Home
… Image The Willa Cather Childhood Home as construction work nears … furnishings, circa 1890 Annotations from the Archive: The Willa Cather Childhood Home December 5, 2023 The reopening of the Willa Cather Childhood Home this month is the culmination of …
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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday
… Image Willa Cather, c. 1912 Image Talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, President, Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events … and a free talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, president of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors at the National …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas … selling farm loans and insurance downtown and rents a story-and-a-half frame house on 3rd and Cedar Streets. Built … of the Panic of 1893. Blind Boone, a well-known African American pianist, performs at the Red Cloud Opera House. …
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Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection
… the U.S. Capitol, June 7, 2023 Image A bronze statuette of Willa Cather by Littleton Alston Willa Cather Statue Dedication & Opening Reception Special … the 150th birthday of one of Nebraska’s treasured authors, Willa Cather, with a pictorial exhibit of intimate portraits …
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Announcing the Inaugural Cohort in the Willa Cather Residency for Writers
… in the Willa Cather Residency for Writers in Red Cloud, Nebraska. The program will be held October 15-29, 2023, and …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… the Congressional Record in 1969 by the two Senators from Nebraska.] It Began With a Letter Writing Campaign The WCPM … birth, chaired by Robert Knoll, of the University of Nebraska, Department of English. One more appeal was issued … would be issued September 20, 1973, at Red Cloud, Nebraska. The Philatelic Release announcing the stamp …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration … cedar shingle roof, gutters, and downspouts Repair of the foundation and reconstruction of window wells Retention of … 30-minute narrated tour of the Willa Cather Childhood Home. About the Willa Cather Childhood Home Opened in 1967 and …
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