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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 … an explosion, a pest" (Politics 7), listened to these stories and stockpiled the details, not knowing the use she … after she arrived there her contributions to the magazine—poems, fiction, nonfiction articles—increased. Even as she …
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 … Betty assumed this position after twenty-five years of teaching both English and art, almost entirely within the … Nebraska Arts Council, Betty exhibited forty mixed media works at the Walker Gallery in the Good Samaritan Hospital …
Posted: 07/14/2023
Last Updated: 08/30/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… ISSUE  Editor: Miriam Mountford  Aims of the WCPM p. 1  Staff p. 1  Museum News and Donors p. 1  Interesting … Wide Interest in Willa Cather p. 3  10th Anniversary of Foundation p. 3  Future Event with John G. Neihardt p. 4  … for Young People p. 3  World Wide Interest and Publications about Willa Cather p. 3  Looking to the Future p. 3  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Cather Sesquicentennial

… NE Feb 28 — University of Montana Lit 494 Capstone, Tracy Tucker, Director of Collections & Curation, to guest lecture … 9 —  Cathedral Arts Project discusses  One of Ours  with Tracy Tucker , Director of Collections & Curation, 7:00 p.m. …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 12/31/2024

Experience America’s Literary Legacy

… Image Experience America’s Literary Legacy Discover Willa Cather and Red Cloud "I'm not exaggerating, Carrie, when I … and culture merge with the pleasures of a quiet country town and its prairie surroundings. To visit  Red Cloud  is … ADAPTIVE REUSE PROJECT Willa Cather Childhood Home & Guided Tours Experience An Author's World Willa Cather’s literary …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 12/01/2025

Finding Aids

… Kort Collection Date range:  1762-1973 Bulk dates:  1918-1943 Finding Aid created by Tracy Sanford Tucker, 2015 … 1880   Document TEX-250-391-053 Financial Agreements, Clark Cather and George P. Cather   1878-1882   Document … of Warsaw n/d n/a Pound, Louise, ed. American Ballads and Songs 1922 H773-4. 100 Poushkin, Alexander The Prose Tales …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

“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, … spanned from 1922-24 featuring different authors writing about 48 states. In 2003, John Leonard wrote in the Nation , … the importance of a place and its people—the traditions and prairie landscape of the Great Plains that Cather loved and …
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

… Image Image Image Image Art Gallery Thursday, Jun 4, 2020 | 12am - Saturday, Jul 4, 2020 … pulls back the curtain to reveal the artist's processes,  A Gold Slipper  is unique in its handling of material culture in …
Posted: 04/10/2020
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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