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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … uses for the site, including educational programs, literary events, and community gatherings that honor Willa Cather’s … contribute to the community at large.”  The Willa Cather Foundation is proud to be working collaboratively with Willa …
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Willa Cather Foundation Collection Continues to Grow

… Image Willa Cather Foundation Collection Continues to Grow September 25, 2017 … George Cather home, I thought I felt the whole house tremble when I chanced upon a trove of forgotten … Center. Items saved, items treasured. I’ll always wonder about this happy coincidence of finding these objects just …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… interesting dualities. She was intensely engaged with her small hometown, even as she became a traveler of the world; … answers. Old schoolmates, distant relatives, kindly people whom I had known in some part of the United States. . … to Houghton Mifflin's Alverda Van Tuyll, "In the first place, let me tell you how delighted I am that you get a …
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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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Support

… Support Support the NWCC Located in Cather’s childhood … the house, sparing it from demolition. Her intention is to donate it to a nonprofit within a year. The Willa Cather Foundation is continuing to work alongside stakeholders in …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… 1.  In addition to program notes on selections related to Cather’s works, this recent interview reveals more about Red … on a Fulbright and then to Vienna, where she first read Willa Cather’s novel,  The Song of the Lark .  “That is when … heroine is an opera singer. The plot is loosely based on my life growing up on a farm in Nebraska and of Norwegian …
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Leroy Maruhn - Our Miriam Mountford Volunteer of the Year

… Owens’s mother and works as a tour guide at the National Willa Cather Center. Jen Schriner de Jager, on our facilities … Leroy grew up in the Holdrege area, but spent most of his life in Red Cloud. He was a well driller for over forty …
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