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Annotations from the Archives: American Archives Month
… from the archives throughout the year, often centered on broad themes, rather than individual collections. … for both research and educational programs for our museum visitors. Our 2023 Humanities Interns —Nolan Bennett and … to welcome you to Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud , which should be completed in 2023. Our earliest …
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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes
… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the … 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
… Willa Cather was the member of the Cather family who shared life in early Nebraska with a reading public, she … our new exhibition, Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud , in the lower level of the Farmers and Merchants Bank … His journal of a return trip to Virginia includes his visits to his boyhood home Willow Shade , old friends and …
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The Collections at National Willa Cather Center
… Cather Center actively seeks historical materials for its core collections, consisting of materials that have a …
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The Visual Narratives of John Blake Bergers
… 2021 | 12am The work of John Blake Bergers returns to our Red Cloud Opera House gallery! Comprised of pieces from our … by his first readings of Cather's work in 1975 and a later visit to Red Cloud, where he met Mildred Bennett and others …
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Annotations from the Archive: Business Papers
… prohibition on publication of Willa Cather’s letters expired, a wealth of new Willa Cather biographical material … farm was the worst looking piece of farm land between Red Cloud and Hastings.” Cather was particularly dismayed to … research into Cather’s business affairs, make plans to visit! The archives at the National Willa Cather Center are …
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Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections
… materials that were central to our understanding of early Red Cloud and Willa Cather’s adolescence here, as well as her … people and places we can only guess about. For those who visit in person, the NWCC has provided a book to record any …
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Annotations from the Archive: Emil Frei Windows Are Beautiful Inside—And Out!
… is Cather’s letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood, sent on June 7, 1928. Written just three months after her father’s death, … roof on the church. It seems then, as now, the old church building was being improved and repaired! But we know from … Hospital administration by arriving for an unannounced tour. We can only conjecture about when memorial windows …
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10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather!
… Image Image 10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather! April 26, 2023 Experience the prairie world of writer Willa Cather in Red Cloud, Nebraska! This year, the National Willa Cather … Here are 10 ways that you, too, can celebrate while visiting Nebraska this year (or around the country)! 1. Hike …
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Willa Cather Goes Back to School, Almost
… trees and plan out useful and honorable futures for the Red Cloud boys and girls. There is nothing for us to do now but … school principal while Cather attended. Cather planned to visit Red Cloud in 1909 for the May commencement, but her …
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