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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 … published seven of her poems in the Home Monthly , and sold others to national publications like Lippincott’s , Harper’s …
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Unseen & Underfoot: The Hidden Diversity of the Plains
… Helicotylenchus, the "spiral" nematode, collected at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie A special science exhibition in the … the story. Unseen and Underfoot was conceived by Powers and others in UNL's Nematology Lab to "show the other half.” The …
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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory
… from photographs—or both? I do both. Sometimes a photo is involved but I may add some remembered things which could be … or stenciling with no end in mind. Something usually will get my imagination going and in the end it actually is a … nothing was told to me and my imagination put the story together. Hopefully I tell the story in the way the painting …
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Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day
… Roll of Honor for Grosvenor P. Cather Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day November 5, 2024 On November 11, … day when the veterans of World War I were honored, and our collections are rich with museum and archival items that … as Veterans Day to honor veterans of all U.S. wars. You can learn more about the history of Armistice Day and Veteran's …
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Annotations from the Archives: The End of an Era for the Chief
… from the first extant Red Cloud Chief, October 9, 1873 Volume I, No. 15, is the first surviving issue of the Red … local history or, in our case, exploring the life of Willa Cather. We know that Willa Cather held a warm place in her … a regular reader of that newspaper. Decades later as Cather Studies were just beginning, it was through those preserved …
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Meet the Artist: Littleton Alston
… his three-dimensional creations are in public and private collections throughout the United States. Alston was … 10. Register online or call 540-662-1473, ext. 240. To learn more about the June 7, 2023 unveiling ceremony at the …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years Cather's essay for the Nation still resonates September 5, … than I do, are satisfied with my presentation of it.” [Willa Cather Papers, 1899-1949, in the Clifton Waller … and is the sort of thing that we may be proud to have others read of us. Willa Cather grew from girlhood to …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library
… what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is significant; … collections contain a number of photos of her reading to children, and of other family members reading. It is clear … the family's involvement with the Auld Library, and from Willa's own writing, just how much the Cather family valued …
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Press Room
… for the latest newsworthy information about our activities, events, and announcements. Please browse the sub-sections … in Cather's work—in particular O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), My Ántonia (1918), One of Ours (1922), A …
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Usage Guidelines
… and digital reproductions of materials held at the National Willa Cather Center (NWCC) through the archivist's office, … scholarship, or research use and may not be transferred to others, further reproduced, or published without the written …
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