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Save America's Treasures Grant Awarded for Restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood Home

… America's Treasures Grant Awarded for Restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood Home September 26, 2019 With intent … Landmark and a major tourist destination, the National Willa Cather Center announced today a $415,000 federal Save … SAT Impact Map at go.nps.gov/satmap . For more information about the grants and the Save America's Treasures Program, …
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There Is No Willa Cather National Heritage Area

… Image There Is No Willa Cather National Heritage Area April 8, 2021 In a public letter to Willa Cather Foundation executive director Ashley Olson on Wednesday, …
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2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image 2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference March 13, 2014 Mapping Literary … June 5–7, 2014 | Red Cloud, Nebraska The Willa Cather Foundation is pleased to welcome Clay Jenkinson, popular … or works to attend, including recreational readers, local history buffs, students, teachers, and professional …
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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not exaggerating, … cities in Europe where I used to love to go. " —Willa Cather, in a letter to childhood friend, Carrie Miner … rug evoke what Alexandra Bergson may have had in her own prairie farmhouse. Cozy and low-ceiled, as Willa Cather …
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Conservation of Willa Cather's Attic Bedroom Wallpaper

… Attic Bedroom Wallpaper Flowers in her "Rose Bower" March 4, 2024 SUPPORT THIS PROJECT As part of the 2019 collections … bedroom description, and a papering experience, into The Song of the Lark (1915) when describing the young Thea Kronborg’s …
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Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience

… Abbie Loomis was thirteen years old when she discovered Willa Cather. Her mother was a voracious reader, and My … all winter. I want them to feel that and not to just think about it as some out-there story. History doesn’t mean much … pioneer experience come alive in a way that just reading about people from Bohemia who moved to Nebraka wouldn’t do.” …
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Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home

… and son of Charles Hugh Miner and Alfretta “Retta” Ayre, Willa Cather’s first cousin. It was Hugh's sisters, Carrie … three, her father and aunt Kay Jones Smith shared stories about summers in Nebraska at the J.L. Miner House. Jaydene’s … than three decades, and he also authored technical books about baseball and softball rules. Jaydene said she also …
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Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud

… founder, Silas Garber, who went on to serve two terms as Nebraska’s governor. Cather became acquainted with Lyra and … our sites—those who may be interested in architecture, in Nebraska or rural history, in preservation—in addition to …
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Cather Legacy Society

… of residual estate) to the Willa Cather Foundation, a Nebraska 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, 413 North Webster Street, Red Cloud, Nebraska 68970, to provide funding for (program area to … "I give (insert sum) to the Willa Cather Foundation, a Nebraska 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, 413 North Webster …
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Antonette Willa Skupa Turner Scholarship

… first year college students and plan to continue their education as English or history majors in accredited … School 2024: Cadence Schleicher, Gering High School Student Scholarships To further Cather’s legacy and to support the … the Willa Cather Foundation annually awards a number of scholarships for college-bound students who desire to major …
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