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Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding
… the space to tell more of Red Cloud’s—and the National Willa Cather Center’s—story. The bank has always been a part of … In our organization’s early days, we were known as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, and Mildred Bennett, Carrie …
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Annotations from the Archive: Discovering Emanuel Prettyman
… As we begin to commemorate the centenary of One of Ours , Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize-winner for Fiction, we look forward … safe keeping. Behind one WCPM poster was a surprise: nine postcards and photos, taped to the back of the poster. …
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Annotations from the Archive: Emil Frei Windows Are Beautiful Inside—And Out!
… the windows often and their history as memorials to the Willa Cather’s family and friends in the church. We know the … nativity is the subject of the window dedicated to honor Willa Cather’s mother, Mary Virginia Cather. But we don’t …
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Annotations From the Archive: Soldiers' Letters
… conclude a year of reflection on Willa Cather's 1922 novel One of Ours by highlighting the letters that she received in … to her editor, Ferris Greenslet, that she is at work on not one, but two books. One of those was a return to the Blue …
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Annotations from the Archive: Holiday Cookery
… make up our traditions. Like many of our own families, the Cather family was spread across the country, and the … meals and family-favorite dishes. From the National Willa Cather Center archives, we take a look at some of the … Home. “I spent many happy days there, especially when Aunt Willa was visiting,” Southwick recalled in 1985. “Aunt …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail
… the Archives: Fan Mail August 22, 2022 Our archives are home to not only Willa Cather’s letters, but to many of the … family struggled to survive, was the author of hundreds of stories and poems, the proceeds of which helped to keep the … Collection Kate M. Cleary: a Literary Biography with Selected Works , by Susanne George-Bloomfield …
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Annotations from the Archive: Our Photo Collections Continue to Grow
… Tracy Tucker aptly illustrate the range of donors to our Willa Cather Foundation Special Collections & Archives. Since our … we received, an early image of John Esten (Jack) Cather, Willa Cather’s much-loved youngest brother, was taken at the …
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Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection
… Estate Item Joins the Collection October 20, 2021 The Willa Cather Foundation Art Collection boasts nearly thirty … particular interest in the scenes described in the works of Willa Cather. Bergers and his family gifted these original …
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Annotations from the Archive: Our Organizational History
… of 1957, Mildred Bennett and the founding members of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial felt that their work in Red Cloud … the word around that we were trying to preserve and restore Willa Cather’s country and artifacts.” The organizations …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thornton Oakley
… think Thornton Oakley is a really big man. He once did some wonderful things of Pittsburgh and the mills. He’s never commonplace.” … themselves, but Melissa Homestead, in her recent book The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa …
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