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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund
… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … uses for the site, including educational programs, literary events, and community gatherings that honor Willa … rural origins of a great writer who, toward the end of her life, struggled to write the story of her home state. …
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Willa Cather Foundation Collection Continues to Grow
… Image Willa Cather Foundation Collection Continues to Grow September 25, … of the committee that worked to raise the funds for our new National Willa Cather Center, I was vividly reminded of the … items have their place in history and a new home at the National Willa Cather Center. Items saved, items treasured. …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings August 1, 2023 As has been noted so often before, there exists within … in response to a request for a photo to accompany The Song of the Lark, Cather writes to Houghton Mifflin's Alverda Van …
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Annotations from the Archive: The Death of G.P. Cather
… Image Annotations from the Archive: The Death of G.P. Cather June 20, 2022 The centenary of One of Ours , Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize–winner for fiction, allows us a chance to reflect on the life—and death—of Willa Cather’s first cousin, Grosvenor …
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Support
… Support Support the NWCC Located in Cather’s childhood hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, the … that was fully restored and given new life as the National Willa Cather Center. Become a Member Shop the Bookstore … the house, sparing it from demolition. Her intention is to donate it to a nonprofit within a year. The Willa Cather …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson
… 1. In addition to program notes on selections related to Cather’s works, this recent interview reveals more about Red … on a Fulbright and then to Vienna, where she first read Willa Cather’s novel, The Song of the Lark . “That is when … heroine is an opera singer. The plot is loosely based on my life growing up on a farm in Nebraska and of Norwegian …
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Leroy Maruhn - Our Miriam Mountford Volunteer of the Year
… mother and works as a tour guide at the National Willa Cather Center. Jen Schriner de Jager, on our facilities … a volunteer, and with his tractor he tills gardens around town. Here at the National Willa Cather Center, Leroy has … alongside founder Mildred Bennett, devised the first guided tours of Red Cloud and Catherland and was first editor of …
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