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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Support the Willa …
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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 …
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… Shop Shop Reinterpreting the Burlington Depot Support Our Newest Exhibit The Burlington Depot has undergone … uses the depot as a setting in many of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and an … will recall the farmstead and the fruit cave from from the final scenes of the novel. Anna Sadilek Pavelka was the …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… recalled. “I was cast in an opera at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and fell in love with it.”  After college, … Zei, my voice teacher and opera director at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Eva Likova, my voice teacher for … plot is loosely based on my life growing up on a farm in Nebraska and of Norwegian heritage. Many aspects of my life …
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Leroy Maruhn - Our Miriam Mountford Volunteer of the Year

… Image Leroy Maruhn - Our Miriam Mountford Volunteer of the Year January … wanted this to be a complete surprise to him and his wife, Janet Maruhn. Janet is Jim Owens’s mother and works as a tour guide at the …
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