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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home | April 2024 Image Willa Cather … follows. Banquet & Readers Theater Tickets To learn more about the recent restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood … Arts Council. His work can be found in  Rattle, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner , and in hundreds of other …
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Conservation of Willa Cather's Attic Bedroom Wallpaper

… the 2019 collections and buildings transfer between History Nebraska and the Willa Cather Foundation, the Gerald R. Ford … the roof." One of twenty-one National Historic Landmarks in Nebraska, the Willa Cather Childhood Home was designated in … from the Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center at History Nebraska were on-site for four days to begin the process and …
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Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience

… as a beneficiary in your estate plans, please contact Ashley Olson, Executive Director, at aolson@willacather.org .     …
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Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home

… as a beneficiary in your estate plans, please contact Ashley Olson, Executive Director, at aolson@willacather.org . …
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A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society

… that I’m from Red Cloud. There is exactly one small town in Nebraska that can claim one of the most famous authors in … with Jay. As he often says, “If I had to meet a boy from Nebraska I’m glad he was from Red Cloud. That has brought …
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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

… Foundation began in 2004, following a trip to Red Cloud, Nebraska for the Willa Cather Spring Conference. And while … education. “Something must have happened on that trip to Nebraska,” Harman said. “Something about the Foundation’s …
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Virtual Author Series: Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee

… Delve into World War II history with the 2025 One Book One Nebraska selection! Join authors Marcus Brotherton and Tosca … Silver Falchion, ECPA Book of the Year in Fiction, and the Nebraska Book Award. Her work has finaled for the High …
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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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Annotations from the Archive: Cather's Address Book

… also listed here. After graduating from the University of Nebraska and getting a PhD in Economics from the University … both received honorary doctorates from the University of Nebraska in 1917. Manufacturing furriers  Brecher & Dursht … Library Digital Collections. 1943.  From the University of Nebraska: Willa Cather to Roscoe Cather, June 23, 1917. …
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