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Burlington Depot
… two-story section of the depot, constructed in 1897, is the building Cather was familiar with during her last years in … story of the Burlington in Red Cloud! Watch our virtual tour of the 2021 restoration and preservation work at this important historic site in Red Cloud! 7-Building Tour 3-Building Tour Individual Build Tour Self Guided Tour …
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NWCC Launches NEH-Funded Digital Projects
… (CARES) Act grant. These new projects, a mobile and web-app and a digital collections search tool, will help the … and descriptions necessary for creating the mobile tour apps on the Cuseum platform. Designed to enhance guided … around the world, the National Willa Cather Center tour apps offer great flexibility. "We've thought of this as the …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia
… We Live" theme. The novel is set in Black Hawk, Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of Red Cloud. More than that, Cather's memorable … more about the October 4th kick-off event Book a My Ántonia tour The Big Read Initiative With the support from the …
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"Willa Cather and the Counterculture" - Registration Closed
… The Only Wonderful Things: the Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis , by …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… moved to Nebraska from Virginia in 1883. Her final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. …
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Historic Sites
… time I talked about Cather in Webster County,” Mildred Bennett said in an interview. “I would tell the audience … with Cather's life. Today, our organization owns and operates the nation's largest collection of … mornings.” — The Song of the Lark Burlington Depot Red Cloud’s Burlington Depot was donated to the Willa Cather …
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The Foster Family
… John worked as a laborer, a janitor, and occasionally ran a shoe shine stand; he reported that he could neither … outside Ravenna, Nebraska. Blanch Foster (1886–?) married Oran Goens of Denver in 1917 and joined him in a successful barbershop and bath house. Oran died between 1924 and 1930, leaving Blanch to raise …
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Willa Cather Biography
… P. Stout’s Cather Among the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative … between sides multiple times). The Cathers, who had a sheep farm, were sympathetic to the Union and some of Cather's … removed to this place which seems otherworldly: "I had never before looked up at the sky where there was not a …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway
… related to Cather’s life and writing. The Center’s mobile app also offers a 30-minute narrated tour of the Willa … It will be faced with original brick material to match the appearance during the period the Cather family resided in …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Also accompanying the family are Rachel Boak, the hired girl Marjorie (Margie) Anderson, and Willa’s cousins Bess … Isabelle. Getting ready to write a novel about Virginia ( Sapphira and the Slave Girl ), Cather revisits that her native state with …
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