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Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home
Image Image Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home March 6, 2023 It was a chance roadtrip with her father after college that first interested Jaydene Miner Drew in her Nebraska family history. Her father, James Hugh …
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A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society
… of supporting in a financial way the things you care about.” Considering this, it’s not surprising that when … trip to Egypt in 2015, they made sure that the Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was included in their estate plans. As … is a testament to Cather, the town, Board members, and staff who make things happen – but from their own …
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Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift
… 102 years old and is buried in her hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska. Kohout grew up in Texas, but each summer she visited her mother’s family in Lincoln, Nebraska. She has vivid memories of time spent with Mama … love of reading to him. Even with her family connection to Nebraska and Cather’s hometown, it wasn’t until Kohout was …
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Retired Teacher Leaves Unexpected Gift to the Willa Cather Foundation
Image Loren Johnson Retired Teacher Leaves Unexpected Gift to the Willa Cather Foundation April 10, 2025 Ask Loren Johnson’s former students what he was like as a teacher and they won’t mince words—he was tough. But they also describe in the same breath …
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Virtual Author Series: Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee
Image The Long March Home Author Series Thursday, Sep 18, 2025 | 7 - 8pm CT Register Online Now Delve into World War II history with the 2025 One Book One Nebraska selection! Join authors Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee as they share excerpts from The …
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Driving American Myths
… These subjects of masquerade are then exposed as tintypes, photographs of which it is very difficult to deny their …
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Finding Aids
… by a straight pin. The maker of the address book and its place of purchase are currently unknown. No dates are … Books Geographic Names, United States Atlanta (inhabited place) Berkeley (inhabited place) Billerica (inhabited … Life in Relation to the Creative Spirit in Man and Nature 1906 ? Alexander, Hartley Burr The Mid Earth Life …
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Annotations from the Archive: Cather's Address Book
Image Annotations from the Archive: Cather's Address Book May 2, 2023 Archival intern Chris Wolak took a deep dive into Willa Cather’s world in the Fall 2022 semester, when she transcribed Willa Cather’s address book. The small (approximately 3" x 5" ) …
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The Willa Cather Teacher Institute
… that address multiple learning theories and modalities; Building strong relationships with National Willa Cather … development while reviewing applications, and hopes to build a demographically and geographically diverse cohort to …
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Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud
… & Merchants Bank As we mark the publication centenary of Willa Cather's A Lost Lady , a new permanent exhibit for the … in A Lost Lady . The bank is used in two of Cather's other writings: the short story "Two Friends," and the novel Lucy …
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