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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about … Willa Cather Childhood Home reopened for tours on December 7, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s 150th birthday. The … and extensive repairs to the windows and doors sealed the building envelope, which will limit exposure to the elements …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Fisher New York Herald Tribune 1933 Clipping TX-50-1000-054 Review of  April Twilights Pittsburg Gazette 1903 Clipping …
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Guided Seasonal Tour

… Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for their … Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of Red Cloud. More than that, Cather's memorable … success as a farm family, it also symbolizes the immigrant stories and rich multiculturalism that shaped the Great …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Image Image A Presentation at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley … the Shenandoah Valley also includes access to the museum's galleries and gardens. Walk-ins welcome as space permits. …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska History Museum in Lincoln and at the National Willa Cather …
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Historic Sites

… Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront … 1965. Efforts to save the depot were extensive, requiring relocation and a full restoration—the result of the railroad's … in 1891. The brick façade was added sometime after the Cathers joined the church in 1922. Today, Grace Episcopal …
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Willa Cather Biography

… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in  Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail

… to know that the story has rung true to someone besides myself . . . . Anyone who has lived in one of those little … in his 1921 letter, “but when I got into your book- “My Antonia” [sic] - it so interested me that I stayed up …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Mountford  TITLE: Willa Cather Museum Dedication  Author: John G. Neihardt p. 1 Report of Museum Dedication and Spring … Interview in the Lincoln State Journal) p. 2  TITLE: O Pioneers! An Early Nebraska Review, August 13, 1913  AUTHOR: … Day of Issue p. 1  Willa Cather Centennial Festival--Events at UNL and Red Cloud p. 2  Notice of Mrs. Roscoe …
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Meet Joanna Blitch: Illustrator of Special Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa

… Image Meet Joanna Blitch: Illustrator of Special Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa September 23, 2020 Last winter, … find the ideal illustrator for our centenary publication of Youth and the Bright Medusa,  Willa Cather's 1920 collection … look like? Was it different for this book?  In terms of Youth and the Bright Medusa , I did a lot of research to get …
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