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

… Treasures Grant Awarded for Restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood Home September 26, 2019 With intent to … was built in 1879 in the vernacular tradition of early prairie houses. Willa Cather, one of our nation’s greatest … 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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Conservation of Willa Cather's Attic Bedroom Wallpaper

… Prize-winning author, she still fondly recalled the tiny attic bedroom she occupied as a child. Writing to her …
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Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience

… that time.” Restoration of the Pavelka Farmstead was one of key components of the Campaign for the Future , and while …
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Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home

… from New York to Las Vegas for work and had stopped in Red Cloud to see the town where he’d spent summers as a … in Las Vegas to make the return trip, and he insisted they visit again so that she could see the town associated with … and son of Charles Hugh Miner and Alfretta “Retta” Ayre, Willa Cather’s first cousin. It was Hugh's sisters, Carrie …
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Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud

Image Image Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud A New Permanent Exhibit for the Farmers & Merchants Bank As we mark the publication centenary of Willa Cather's A Lost Lady , a new permanent exhibit for the Farmers and Merchants Bank is in …
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Cather Legacy Society

… of your assets to the Foundation Why a Bequest?  This simple method of remembering the Willa Cather Foundation …
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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… may be locked from either side, Sweet Water is calm and cool as its subdued blue walls. Originally, this room …
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Antonette Willa Skupa Turner Scholarship

… Antonette Willa Skupa Turner Scholarship Due February 28 About the … Pavelka, prototypes for both Anton and Ántonia Shimerda in Cather's novel  My Ántonia  and Anton and Mary Rosicky in … generation of Cather readers and scholars, the Willa Cather Foundation annually awards a number of scholarships for …
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