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Catherland by Shane Booth
… The photographs that make up the exhibit evoke a sense of place and remind viewers of Cather’s magical stories of the … stops blowing and scars everything it caresses, I call this place home. I have always been enamored by its emptiness and …
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Annotations from the Archive—The Right Reverend George Allen Beecher Letters
… Depression, and struggled with arrangements for the family home in Red Cloud. Beecher, surely, knew all this when he … stronger.’” [sic] “Love knows no limits of time or place,” Beecher continues in his letter to Elsie, “and I can … to the Beechers just before Christmas—”It was a kind of homesickness,” she writes, “for you and all your work.” We …
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Annotations from the Archive: Business Papers
… went through satisfactorily, and I hope you will be able to place the other $700. If you can not place it before July … same time, Cather continued to invest in farm loans back home in Webster County. A rancorous transaction with her … Nebraska; the rich archival collections held in Cather’s home state are critical to understanding Cather’s life and …
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Annotations from the Archive: On Writing Themes
… over the prospect, I have grown so attached to my work & place in the office & to my little labratory & dissecting … then he went to do some work, forgot the sheep and went home. That night the dog did not come when he was called and … to find travelers in the snow and carry them to a place of safety. Pugs & Poodles are famous for nothing, …
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Annotations from the Archive: Emil Frei Windows Are Beautiful Inside—And Out!
… installed at all, how the Emil Frei Art Glass Company was chosen to supply them, or the details of how they were made. …
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Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding
… William Ludlow, a retired minister, purchased our old home north of town where Herb Lambrecht now lives. . . . … right at hand and the “know-how” he brought from his Iowa home. The need was great in this new community for better building supplies, as sod houses were being replaced by frame structures that needed brick for chimneys …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions
… and "The Origin of Thanksgiving" article, directly at the links above at the Willa Cather Archive at the University …
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Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection
… Grace Episcopal churches, and the Willa Cather Childhood Home in Red Cloud. Harris was a lover of literature and a … collector of paintings, displaying them in her Cape Cod home; when she returned to Massachusetts, she took a Bergers … Julie Harris as well, to return her cherished piece to a place she knew and loved and dreamed of. We plan to display …
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Career Opportunity for Heritage Tourism Development Director
… of the Republican River Valley. Red Cloud’s unique sense of place provides a remarkable development opportunity for transformative community change. Red Cloud was home to novelist Willa Cather and has significant heritage …
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Visions Seen in the Air: An Invitational Exhibit
… the First Cycle,” readers see the many ways that Cather’s home town of Red Cloud, Nebraska, has continued to occupy a major place in American literature. “This was the very end of the … artists to contemplate the essence of Willa Cather’s home town and to convey, through any medium, that sense of …
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