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Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Install New Officers
… Image Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Install New Officers … gallery, located on the main level of the Opera House. Both town and country tours of sites related to Cather are available; for more …
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Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame
… Quebec; and in her powerful final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), Cather returned to the Virginia of her …
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Barkell Honored with Miriam Mountford Volunteer Award
… assisted in devising the first guided tours of the Cather historic sites. The Miriam Mountford Volunteer Award was established … and the community can point to with pride when welcoming visitors. Matching funds for paint and materials were …
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Spring Conference Line-Up Announced
… author of the 2016 “One Book One Nebraska” selection The Meaning of Names , who will discuss her novel and sign copies of her …
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Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center
… street-level retail space, and three residences to house visitors. The Center will occupy Red Cloud’s historic “Moon Block” building following a restoration of … Cather Foundation concentrated on preserving and restoring sites important to the life and works of Willa Cather. …
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Donor Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi
… $123,270 to aid in the restoration of the Willa Cather Historic Sites. A bibliophile and librarian, Nancy Picchi first visited Red Cloud with her sister in 1988. They made the …
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Robert and Ardis James Foundation Donates $250,000 for NWCC Endowment
… 19, 2021 Literature enthusiasts from across the country who visit the National Willa Cather Center can look forward to … One such site where history will soon come alive is the Pavelka Farmstead, a setting from the final scenes of My Ántonia , …
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Community Events: Free and Open to the Public!
… Image Community Events: Free and Open to the Public! May 24, 2021 Join us on … June 5 The National Willa Cather Center will host its 66th annual Spring Conference June 3–5, 2021. Willa Cather and …
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Students Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely!
… her stay productive. Still, she would love to be able to visit and work at the NWCC, especially to spend time in the archives and tour each of our Cather sites. When she is not researching education programs for historic house museums, Alise’s favorite way to lose track …
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Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators
… Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators February 7, 2020 Visit Red Cloud—Our unique small town on the prairie and … Tour " of outlying properties and settings, including the Pavelka Farmstead made famous in Willa Cather's My Ántonia Shop the …
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