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The Potter Family
… R. Potter, was 21 when they were married, having left his home in Owego, N.Y. the year before to come to Illinois … He and his father never agreed very well, so he left home and came west, as Illinois was considered at the time. … river is just as treacherous there as it [is] every place else. My father bought a farm 2 1/2 miles south of …
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Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal
… “crazy-wall” of evidence and yarn-linked people, places, and ideas, and you get a sense of the connections … but had recently finished a watercolor of the Cathers’ home (the Cather Second Home on Seward Street) and visited with acquaintances of …
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Willa Cather Biography
… P. Stout’s Cather Among the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative … precluded by a proviso in Cather’s will. But The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (2013), edited by Andrew … an explosion, a pest" (Politics 7), listened to these stories and stockpiled the details, not knowing the use she …
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Reflections on 2023
… exhibit, Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud Cather news and scholarship published in the Willa Cather Review …
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A Pittsburgh Playlist: Celebrating Willa Cather at 150
… journalism written in and about Pittsburgh, which was her home 1896-1906 and a favorite writing retreat until 1915. A … reading. This event is free, but please RSVP. It will take place in the CLP Lecture Hall. …
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Annotations from the Archives: American Archives Month
… will now features all our finding aids , in one handy place, just as quickly as we can make them available. Our … that had been on display in the Willa Cather Childhood Home. This week, the full team, which also includes Alisa … be planning for move-in day at the Willa Cather Childhood Home . While these folks keep the historic sites looking …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … Princeton. In 1944 she received the gold medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.” 50 Volunteers, 34 …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… its immigrants and customs. It is about the importance of a place and its people—the traditions and prairie landscape of … grew from girlhood to maturity in Nebraska. Although her home is now in that mecca for the literary artisan, New …
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Annotations from the Archives: Homesteading and Home-Building in the Archives
… Annotations from the Archives: Homesteading and Home-Building in the Archives August 22, 2023 While Willa … documents, will soon join our new exhibition, Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud , in the lower level of …
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Visit
… Visit Visit the Museum No study of Cather is complete without a trip to Red Cloud. The National Willa Cather Center is a wonderful museum and archival … real people speaking the lines can give us that feeling of living along with them, of participating in their …
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