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Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… the U.S. Capitol, June 7, 2023 Image A bronze statuette of Willa Cather by Littleton Alston Willa Cather Statue Dedication & … event if free of charge. Learn more about Willa Cather and Material Culture  and artist Betty Kort.  …
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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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Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… Image Willa's Cradle, by Betty Kort Image Out in the Kitchen, by … - Saturday, Nov 4, 2023 | All day In 2007, photographer and Willa Cather Foundation executive director Betty Kort created …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … p. 1  Service by Volunteers p. 1  Restoration Attracts National Attention p. 1  Notable Comments p. 2  WCPM … Displays p. 1  New Equipment Renovation p. 2  Research Center p. 2  Interest in Cather p. 2  Willa Cather Merit …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are … Service, with matching funds provided by the  Willa Cather Foundation’s  Campaign for the Future .  Book clubs and … Cather , Red Cloud, NE: a special Red Cloud Opera House Gallery exhibit of international works honoring the birth …
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71st Annual Spring Conference Schedule

… Spring Conference Schedule Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather in Dialogue with America 250 Each day of the spring … PM Welcome and Opening Plenary: "Cancer and Caregiving: Willa Cather's My Mortal Enemy" with Heather Althoff*- RCOH … the efforts of individual people, archival agents who save material, become its long-term caretakers, and make it …
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Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… sites and sounds that changed American literature. Take a detour from the scramble of urbanity and absorb the rolling … inspired the Pulitzer Prize winner’s influential writings. LEARN MORE National Willa Cather Center A cultural oasis on … of cattle — or just the sound of absolutely nothing in the virtual center of the lower 48-states. MORE ABOUT THE …
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Finding Aids

…  The Betty Kort Collection was donated by Willa Cather descendants James and Angela Southwick and contains documents … in the late 1920s. It includes addresses of Cather’s friends, family, business associates, firms, and hotels. Most … slips of loose paper, some of which are adhered. Near the end of the address book is a list of travel-related notes. …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… 5, 1923 issue of the Nation “Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years  Cather's essay for the … their soul-destroying work.” “Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” is a hymn to the state’s then-recent past, its … Read the full transcript of “Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” on the Cather Archive website   "Willa Cather's …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… difficult and costly; it only stands to reason that reading materials like books and magazines might be considered a … of the Auld Library  and the purchase of books. Charles Cather was elected the first president of the library board. … what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is significant; …
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