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IMLS Grant Awarded for $250,000
… grant funding through its Museums for America Program The National Willa Cather Center is delighted to announce the … for exhibitions, educational/interpretive programs, digital learning resources, professional development, community … debate and dialogue, audience-focused studies, and/or collections management, curation, care, and conservation. In …
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Nick Powers, Our On-Staff Nebraska Master Naturalist
… Parks or the University of Nebraska. Nick has been with the Willa Cather Foundation since January 2022 and is currently … curation. “Our ongoing work of preserving the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie hinges on both a knowledgeable, …
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Crossroads: Change in Rural America
… generations. These places where people gather to exchange goods, services and culture and to engage in political and …
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Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days
… them up etc. You know what I want, personal matter that the newspapers dont give. Of course I will keep your name out of … an experience with the managing editor of the ‘Times’ and ‘News’ that I thought might interest you, so I'll take time … to me.’ Told me to go ahead and do some special [illegible] articles as things struck me and he'd take them. Said there …
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Annotations from the Archive: Business Papers
… Cloud and Hastings.” Cather was particularly dismayed to learn the farms she owned in Webster County were also in … into Cather’s business affairs, make plans to visit! The archives at the National Willa Cather Center are open … of your time in Nebraska, you should also visit the Cather collections at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and …
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Annotations from the Archive: Discovering Emanuel Prettyman
… the years. After her death, a great deal of Wagner’s Cather collections were donated to us in Red Cloud, including … we were just beginning to build our new archives at the National Willa Cather Center, storage space was at a … only image of Prettyman identified. Research continues to learn more about Prettyman’s life; his military records and …
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Spotlight on the Farmers and Merchants Bank Restoration
… and restore the original interior features Retrofit the building with new electrical and mechanical equipment prior … also involved the replication of two slender sandstone tourelles that once flanked the tower upward to the cornice … Cather Foundation, 413 N. Webster Street, Red Cloud, NE 68970. To learn about naming and recognition opportunities …
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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud
… Image Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud October 25, 2019 In early October 2019, … lectures by Willa Cather scholars, toured each of our historic sites , had a tour of our Special Collections & Archives, …
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