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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.  …
Posted: 09/27/2023
Last Updated: 10/06/2023

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a special issue of  Modern Fiction Studies  on Cather's work. This critical interest in Cather …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

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 …
Posted: 07/14/2023
Last Updated: 08/30/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… are listed with the corresponding issue in PDF format. Summer 1957 to Current 1.1  Summer 1957  FIRST ISSUE  … 3  Also in this issue: Poem for Cather by Leonard Gilley, reprinted in 1966 Prairie Schooner p. 3  … Hollands at the Grand" p. 2  "It Lacks Continuity" p. 2  "Beautiful Anna Held" p. 3  "Otis Skinner at the Grand" p. 3  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Cather Sesquicentennial

…  on the adapted texts utilized in the writing of the play,  Henrietta Solway , which was commissioned by the National … in 2023. Feb 24–25 — Animal Engine Theater presents  Henrietta Solway , Lied Center, Lincoln, NE Feb 28 — … & Archives March 1–3 — Animal Engine Theater presents  Henrietta Solway  in Red Cloud ,  Kearney , and McCook, NE …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 12/31/2024

Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… inspired the Pulitzer Prize winner’s influential writings. LEARN MORE National Willa Cather Center A cultural oasis on … events and performances throughout the year. Our Special Collections & Archives hold some of the priceless treasures … and with the recent addition of over 8,000 documents and artifacts related to Willa Cather. Our Red Cloud Opera House …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/20/2026

Finding Aids

… for download. Betty Kort Collection Date range:  1762-1973 Bulk dates:  1918-1943 Finding Aid created by Tracy … genealogy Burlington & Missouri River Railroad journals building records financial instruments Related Materials:   … materials Notes on WCPM museum displays, historic sites, tour scripts Loose clippings about Cather, WCPM, Red Cloud …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years  Cather's essay for the Nation still resonates September 5, … than I do, are satisfied with my presentation of it.”   [Willa Cather Papers, 1899-1949, in the Clifton Waller … Nebraska. If we are to judge from her previously published material she still feels herself flesh of our flesh, bone of …
Posted: 09/05/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… local organizations or simply had to purchase their own small selection of reading materials. In 1913, the new Red Cloud YMCA created a library in one of its rooms, with material donated by the P.E.O. club, … It's unclear what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/11/2023

A Gold Slipper

… and filmmaker Michael Burton exhibits animated scenes of Willa Cather's short story of the same name, as well as the … processes,  A Gold Slipper  is unique in its handling of material culture in its broadest sense—not just the objects …
Posted: 04/10/2020
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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