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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 & … Library from Glenda J. Pierce, member of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors, and Jeff Kirkpatrick; it will …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … seven children raised by Charles and Mary Virginia Cather. Cathers had been in the area since the 1700s, and Back … a prominent writer herself, and the three made a well-known visit with A. E. Housman, then a poet Cather much admired. …
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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 … Wide Interest in Willa Cather p. 3  10th Anniversary of Foundation p. 3  Future Event with John G. Neihardt p. 4  … 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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Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are … the  Willa Cather Foundation’s  Campaign for the Future .  Book clubs and teachers around the country are encouraged to … from Cather's fiction, journalism, and letters written or set in Pittsburgh between 1896 and 1929 • Birthday cookies …
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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

… 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 of a literary …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … typescript Not a Bit Chaste typescript “Willa Cather’s European Roots” typescript Mildred Bennett’s CV and poetry …
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“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 …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… Red Cloud did not have a public library until 1917. Though literary clubs were popular in the area, most people relied … 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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