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Annotations from the Archives: American Archives Month
… aids made them available—and searchable!—on our new website, which will now features all our finding aids , in … our facilities and preservation specialist, helps keep our historic sites and National Willa Cather Center archives … invaluable guidance as we undertook the much-needed restoration of the Childhood Home. Mildred Bennett's record …
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Pavelka Farmstead
… Highway 4 near Bladen. Restored and managed by the National Willa Cather Center, the Pavelka Farmstead was chosen as one of … of an immigrant farm family in Nebraska. Read more about its ongoing restoration HERE . Take a virtual tour of …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years Cather's essay for the Nation still resonates September 5, … than I do, are satisfied with my presentation of it.” [Willa Cather Papers, 1899-1949, in the Clifton Waller … Nebraska. If we are to judge from her previously published material she still feels herself flesh of our flesh, bone of …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson
… recalled. “I was cast in an opera at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and fell in love with it.” After college, … I thought it was nothing special. I was surrounded by good voices. I had classmates with lovely voices. My mother's family all seemed to have excellent …
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Annotations from the Archives: Homesteading and Home-Building in the Archives
… to work on behalf of acquaintances still in Virginia to secure profitable farm land in Webster County. Image Land …
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Virtual Author Series: David McKay Powell
… Sep 14, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Learn more about the art form that inspired Willa Cather during her entire life! Author David McKay Powell …
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Novels
… Ours Claude Leaves Nebraska to Go to War "When she can see nothing that has come of it all but evil, she reads Claude's … and something else was there, too,—in her heart, was it, or under her cheek? Anyhow, it was about her somewhere, that … he began, with the land. He owned exactly six hundred and forty acres of what stretched outside his door; his own …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones
… reached significant fundraising milestones in recent weeks. News of a $2.3 million Shovel-Ready Capital Recovery & …
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Potter Block Ceremonial Groundbreaking
… years. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the two buildings will become a mixed-use space, including gallery and exhibit areas that will highlight important … Fund (an affiliated fund of the Nebraska Community Foundation). Over $5 million in donations, grants, and …
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Youth and the Bright Medusa
… is a collection of eight short stories by the prolific Willa Cather. Four of the pieces contained in this collection were … formulated collection of succinct yet powerful questions about the true function of art and the loss of youth. …
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