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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … America’s canonical authors. The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings in some of Cather’s most …
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Historic Sites
… audience how important it was to restore and preserve these places. . . . and nothing happened.” Mildred Bennett and a … dedicated to an American author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the … in detail in her 1915 novel The Song of the Lark. The home was acquired by the Willa Cather Foundation in 1960 and …
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School Field Trips
… School Field Trips Explore Cather's Childhood Home & More The National Willa Cather Center offers customizable experiences for … history for the first time, or taking a deep dive into the world of My Ántonia or O Pioneers! , students and educators …
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Conservation of Willa Cather's Attic Bedroom Wallpaper
… Bedroom Wallpaper Flowers in her "Rose Bower" March 4, 2024 SUPPORT THIS PROJECT As part of the 2019 collections and … transfer between History Nebraska and the Willa Cather Foundation, the Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center provided … Conducts Conservation Work on the Original Wallpaper With support from a Save America's Treasures grant, testing to …
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Willa Cather Biography
… readings that there existed a growing body of evidence to support such a claim: Sharon O'Brien's influential … Although she did this in part for the money it paid—she supported herself during 1893–95—Cather established herself … that transformed her career. Building upon her solid foundation as an energetic journalist in Lincoln and …
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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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Annotations from the Archives: American Archives Month
… will now features all our finding aids , in one handy place, just as quickly as we can make them available. Our … that had been on display in the Willa Cather Childhood Home. This week, the full team, which also includes Alisa … be planning for move-in day at the Willa Cather Childhood Home . While these folks keep the historic sites looking …
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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes
… come and go, but the land is always here...” —O Pioneers! Visit Red Cloud and immerse yourself in the prairie settings and …
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Annotations from the Archives: Homesteading and Home-Building in the Archives
… our collections which may not yet be online; you can reach Tracy Sanford Tucker at ttucker@willacather.org. …
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The Collections at National Willa Cather Center
… browse our Finding Aids or search for individual items in our Collection Gallery . Conducting Research … in your citation: Identification of the original item (Inventory Number, Collection name and Repository), and/or Identification of an item's electronic format, the date the item was accessed, …
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