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Annotations from the Archive: Our Organizational History
… of 1957, Mildred Bennett and the founding members of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial felt that their work in Red Cloud … that surrounded Willa Cather and sometimes disagreed about how to preserve her legacy. The Willa Cather Pioneer …
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Annotations from the Archive: Our Photo Collections Continue to Grow
… Tracy Tucker aptly illustrate the range of donors to our Willa Cather Foundation Special Collections & Archives. Since our … been mounted to a cardboard backer, no other clues exist about the photographer, the studio, or the occasion. The …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thornton Oakley
… think Thornton Oakley is a really big man. He once did some wonderful things of Pittsburgh and the mills. He’s never commonplace.” … themselves, but Melissa Homestead, in her recent book The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa …
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Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection
… Estate Item Joins the Collection October 20, 2021 The Willa Cather Foundation Art Collection boasts nearly thirty … writing and connected it to her own life. “When she writes about her childhood, you can’t help but think about yours . …
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Annotations from the Archive: Benefit
… the Archive: Benefit February 6, 2023 On February 4, 1888, Willa Cather and her friends staged a musical version of “Beauty … direction of Will O’Brien and Peoriana Bogardus Sill for about two weeks. The $40 they raised from admissions to the …
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Annotations from the Archive: Herbaria of Webster County
… regards Swezey's publication of a sixteen page pamphlet, Nebraska Flowering Plants . He notes that Franc's "list of … tools for measuring plant growth, compiled circulars on Nebraska butterflies and crustaceans, and collected fossils, … professor of Astronomy and Meteorology at the University of Nebraska in 1896. But in addition to this trove of …
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Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections
… Collections February 25, 2022 The installation of the Crossroads exhibit, from the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main … exhibit that I’m sure our guests will enjoy. Alongside the Crossroads exhibit though is a smaller local exhibition of … in letters to her Red Cloud acquaintances, she wrote about events like those depicted in the exhibit—business openings …
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Annotations From the Archive: John Mallory Bates
… recent addition to our archival collections at the National Willa Cather Center, Cather writes to “Mr. Perrin,” whose family … Cather Center in Red Cloud. The Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. Vol. 45, Summer 2001 . The Blue Book of Nebraska …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions
… —from the essay, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," by Willa Cather [ The Nation , September 5, 1923] Thanksgiving, as … things with which we are most familiar that we know least about. Familiarity seems to dull the edge of our curiosity. …
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Annotations from the Archive: Discovering Emanuel Prettyman
… As we begin to commemorate the centenary of One of Ours , Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize-winner for Fiction, we look … newspaper copies, was printed in the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter & Review in 1989. When Dr. Steven Trout … visited Red Cloud to conduct research for his book Memorial Fictions in the mid-1990s, he discovered that in the few …
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