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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, 2017 This letter from Willa Cather Foundation Board President, Lynette Krieger, originally appeared in … 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

… Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings August 1, 2023 As has been noted so … she often saved and sent home clippings for friends and family. Occasionally, Cather adds a handwritten note to …
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Annotations from the Archive: The Death of G.P. Cather

… , 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 Phillips Cather of nearby Bladen, Nebraska. … materials or other items related to G. P. Cather, please contact archivist Tracy Tucker at ttucker@willacather.org …
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… museum, archive, research center, classroom, bookstore, art gallery, and performing arts center. The Center occupies Red Cloud’s historic “Moon …
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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, … I thought it was nothing special. I was surrounded by good voices. I had classmates with lovely voices. My mother's family all seemed to have excellent …
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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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