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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … will require significant restoration in order to be saved.  Virginia realtor Katherine Solenberger purchased the … 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 a family that figures importantly in Willa Cather’s life and work. And so it was that as President of the Board … and a new home at the National Willa Cather Center. Items saved, items treasured. I’ll always wonder about this happy …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the … she was a dedicated reader of her press, and that she often saved and sent home clippings for friends and family. … the advertising, the worse it is for me. It disturbs my life and my work too much." Sitting for a portrait was, …
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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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… research center, classroom, bookstore, art gallery, and performing arts center. The Center occupies Red Cloud’s … Cather loved about Webster County.   Contribute to this Campaign The Willa Cather Birthplace Support for Future Preservation Willa Cather's birth home, a rural …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… Red Cloud program with the aria from Handel’s Messiah , “If God be for us, who can be against us?" in a voice and violin …
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Leroy Maruhn - Our Miriam Mountford Volunteer of the Year

… Janet Maruhn. Janet is Jim Owens’s mother and works as a tour guide at the National Willa Cather Center. Jen Schriner … 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 …
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