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Annotations from the Archives: From a Trainman's Library

… by the railroad, connected Red Cloud to the larger world. The technologies and processes that enabled such a … and  Locomotive Engineering Magazine  were found in the Willa Cather Childhood Home attic and date to the Cather's …
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Historic Sites

… Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the … nation's largest collection of nationally-designated historic sites dedicated to an American author. Willa Cather … hardware store for decades. “When I go about among little Nebraska towns . . . the thing I miss most is the opera …
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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 … letter, Reynard was engaged with the Association of American Colleges Arts Program and traveled extensively, … Reynard said, “It percolated through my confusion that this great lady had done me a great service in talking about …
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Annotations from the Archives: Homesteading and Home-Building in the Archives

… and Home-Building in the Archives August 22, 2023 While Willa Cather was the member of the Cather family who shared … records sometimes pertain to families  other  than the Cathers—making this collection useful to local genealogists … His journal of a return trip to Virginia includes his visits to his boyhood home Willow Shade , old friends and …
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Press Room

… O Pioneers!  (1913),  The Song of the Lark  (1915),  My Ántonia  (1918),  One of Ours  (1922),  A Lost Lady …
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Nebraska Chamber Players with Brian Leeper present Christian Ellenwood's Children of the Moon

… Image Image Opera House Saturday, Jun 4, 2022 | 7:30 - 9pm Red Cloud Opera House 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , … new composition,  Children of the Moon , is based on Willa Cather’s  One of Ours  which celebrates its 100th … learn more about and register for the Spring Conference,  visit the Spring Conference event page. Children of the Moon …
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The Visual Narratives of John Blake Bergers

… best-loved images. All are inspired by the works and world of Willa Cather, but also capture Bergers' own experience of growing …
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Annotations from the Archive: Business Papers

… Papers July 20, 2021 When the prohibition on publication of Willa Cather’s letters expired, a wealth of new Willa Cather biographical material … research into Cather’s business affairs, make plans to visit! The archives at the National Willa Cather Center are …
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Annotations from the Archive—The Right Reverend George Allen Beecher Letters

… windows, and how many of Webster county’s “old-time pioneers who had known and loved Ms. Cather” best, had …
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Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections

… of materials pulled from the collections of the National Willa Cather Center and the Webster County Historical Museum. Our … the general store and the lumberyard. In our Cather-focused world, we often think about Red Cloud as a sort of time …
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