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Finding Aids
… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … address books, journals, and sales ledgers for her novels, as well as hundreds of objects that belonged to the … Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Subjects: short stories Cather genealogy Willa Cather personal effects …
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Ashley Olson Receives Mildred Bennett Award
… The Nebraska Center of the Book recently honored National Willa Cather Center Executive Director Ashley Olson with the 2025 … has made a significant contribution to the fostering of the literary tradition of Nebraska," the Mildred Bennett Award …
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All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture
… –Lucy Gayheart Image Coming Spring 2026! The National Willa Cather Center’s historic Burlington Depot will soon welcome … hands-on activities focused around railroad history, the literary legacy of the Burlington, and the railway as a …
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Group and Motorcoach Tours
… Group and Motorcoach Tours Discover the World of Willa Cather on the American Prairie Embark on a literary oasis and introduce your group to Pulitzer …
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A Special Challenge Grant Opportunity
… be received by December 31. Thank you! DONATE This year the Cather Center proudly completed a nationwide “Big Read” of … experience, and the power of historical reflection through Willa Cather’s prose. Our work doesn’t stop here. With your … put books in classrooms to allow all students access to the literary treasures that reflect our national story. Image …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist
… to connect the archives to local history and, in our case, literary history, but the very idea of a centralized, … the questions she gets most often. How do you pronounce Cather? According to Henry Blackman Sell in a short article … frequently that I keep a hard copy at home and at work. Did Willa Cather say, "Anybody can love the mountains, but it's …
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Annotations from the Archive: Back to School
… from a few great scientists the right of the hospital, the post mortem, or experimenting with animal life, but we are …
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Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights
… from the Archive: April Twilights April 8, 2025 Though Willa Cather is known worldwide as a novelist, her first published … at ttucker@willacather.org. Resources: Willa Cather: A Literary Life, by James Woodress. Letter to Fred Otte, 28 …
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Unseen & Underfoot: The Hidden Diversity of the Plains
… printers, scientists, and wildlife photographers involved in the Unseen and Underfoot project represents two … in Crop Improvement and Protection in 2017 and went on to get his MS in Nematology at Ghent University in 2020; he …
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My Ántonia: The Story of a Great American Novel
… Image Willa Cather Free Event at the Joslyn! Special Events Saturday, … by Ashley Olson, executive director of the National Willa Cather Center. Heralded by critics following its publication … arts center, ten historic sites, and a 612-acre native prairie that make up the largest collection of nationally …
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