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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials related … Bennett Book Inventory Box 17—Mementos, Photos, Gifts, Notes, including: Map of Grand Manan Drawings … Lincoln, Neb. Brooks, E.S. Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times 1896 South Ward; …
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49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Marlena Myles

… experience that will guide people through the sacred lands at Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary and Indian Mounds … the U.S. government forced Indigenous people off their lands, destroyed burial mounds and built a railroad over the … to rectify the past by restoring the area back to a Native prairie. She says she hopes the installation will bring a …
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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann

… monarch groves of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled … arts manager, and registered nurse, Ohlmann finally lands in Texas, buys a house, and gets a dog. But her house … Mad Women  (Dancing Girl Press, 2017),  Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide  (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and  The …
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Music in Willa Cather's Writing

… she enters the world of formal study in the urban Chicago landscape, her musical parameter shifts to a classic, … Kronborg’s ascent to the height of her musical career.  She lands the plum role of Sieglinde in Richard Wagner’s  Die … One of Ours. “I wanted my red-headed soldier from a prairie farm to 'get some of his back,' . . . through a fine …
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Annotations from the Archive: Herbaria of Webster County

… names of our own for them." When Willa Cather described her prairie childhood in "The Education You Have to Fight For," … how they struggled to apply their Eastern educations to the lands of the West. We're inspired too, to think about how we … ttucker@willacather.org. You can also schedule a guided prairie tour (but please, no specimen collecting!) by …
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