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William Norris Buffett Gifts Millions for Creation of Hotel Garber

… and prototype for Captain Forrester in Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady . When fully restored, the building will provide …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Miriam Mountford  Aims of the WCPM p. 1  Staff p. 1  Museum News and Donors p. 1  Interesting Visitors p. 2  Nebraska … Miriam Mountford  Title: Prototypes of Characters in My Ántonia Recognized at Spring Banquet  AUTHOR: Victor P. … World War I posters exhibited at Depot p. 1  Ten New Cather Essays Available from WCPM Bookstore p. 1  James Woodress …
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Planning Underway for Hotel Garber

… Potter-Wright building next door to the Willa Cather Foundation’s Farmers and Merchants Bank, the hotel will be … donations and equity investments. To learn more or to help support the project, please contact Executive Director, … Jarrod McCartney, at jmccartney@redcloudnebraska.com. To donate online, please click here . …
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Spotlight on the Farmers and Merchants Bank Restoration

… and restore the original interior features Retrofit the building with new electrical and mechanical equipment prior … was completed by Carson Stone & Supply of Omaha using 3D scanning technology to replicate the intricate engraving … also involved the replication of two slender sandstone tourelles that once flanked the tower upward to the cornice …
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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… was a prototype for Captain Forrester in Cather’s novel, A Lost Lady . The Grace Episcopal Church , which Cather joined in …
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Farmers and Merchants Bank

… used them as prototypes for Captain and Mrs. Forrester in A Lost Lady . The bank is used in two of Cather's other writings: …
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Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge

… April: My Ántonia (1918) May: One of Ours (1922) June: A Lost Lady (1923) July: The Professor's House (1925) August: My …
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Elderhostel

…   Highlights : Monday June 15: 4-5 p.m. :  Check in at the Opera House 5 p.m. :  Introductions; Walk to dinner 7 p.m. :  … Contemporary Country Performance on the historic 1185 Opera House stage Cost: Tuition:            $598 per Person …
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Reflections from the Prairie Writers' Workshop by Timothy Schaffert

… which she argues that fiction can become overburdened with material objects that fail to serve the story. "It is the … reading, and the many images and emotions evoked in the gallery of the Opera House those evenings have stayed with …
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