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Annotations from the Archives: The Cather Family Library

… details of "The Grief of the Pasha" in her 1915 novel, The Song of the Lark. Image Willa Cather wrote her name and the year 1882 in … the adult members of the family from Virginia. After the sale of the Cather family home in Red Cloud in the 1930s, …
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Pavelka Farmstead

… wife with ten children, Anna Pavelka was the inspiration for Ántonia Shimerda, arguably Willa Cather’s most famous … has been accomplished since early 2020 at the start of our Campaign for the Future ! Our next phase will be interpreting the house and …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is significant; … collections contain a number of photos of her reading to children, and of other family members reading. It is clear … the family's involvement with the Auld Library, and from Willa's own writing, just how much the Cather family valued …
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Plain Views: Pastel and Photography

… of Solomon Butcher, Lohr’s portraits of women and children seek to portray the stark existence of early … Nebraska settlers are echoed in the enduring novels of Willa Cather. Cather observed in O Pioneers! , “We come and …
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The Wonder of It All

… the human heart.  Wallace is especially fond of staff and children at the Munroe Meyer Institute, as well as QLI and … Intercultural Senior Center. Programming at the National Willa Cather's Red Cloud Opera House is made possible with …
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"She was nearly as strong as I": Being Woman in the Workplace

… Professionals for a special session on the life and work of Willa Cather. This is a great opportunity to learn more … near Black Hawk, eventually raising a large family of children on a farm. How have the lives of working women in …
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Ballet Folklorico de Topeka

… dance. All thirty-one states have various dances with distinct forms influenced by years of Spanish and French rule … Ballet Folklorico de Topeka is a program of Justicia, Inc., a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization established in …
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Literary Societies—Annotations from the Archive

… returning to school, we always think of Frances Cather, Willa Cather's Mount Holyoke-educated aunt who came West to … have been a welcome respite from long days of managing the children and the farm, a way of recalling her old life. In … most generous gift. If you have materials related to the Cathers and their lives, we would love to talk with you! The …
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Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding

… the space to tell more of Red Cloud’s—and the National Willa Cather Center’s—story. The bank has always been a part … just a few—shared a social and historical context with the Cathers, “a kind of freemasonry,” as Willa Cather called it … in the hot coals, as was corn and potatoes. The women and children joined the men now at the yard and all had a good …
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Celebrating Juneteenth

… Celebrating Juneteenth June 18, 2021 In 2019, the National Willa Cather Center and many from the Cather community … Sapphira and the Slave Girl,  which was based on the Cathers' own family experiences. During our visit, though, … and went to the Douglas School for African American children, as her mother had done. She is now one of the …
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