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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund Funds needed for … contribute to the community at large.”  The Willa Cather Foundation is proud to be working collaboratively with Willa … by family members who, in her father’s family, had supported the Union and, in her mother’s family, had fought …
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Willa Cather Foundation Collection Continues to Grow

… Image Willa Cather Foundation Collection Continues to Grow September 25, 2017 … 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; … fine clothes, the fascinating company. The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection contains even more evidence of … patrons would not like. During the sittings, Thérese Bonney photographed Cather and Bakst in the studio, a photo that …
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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 the NWCC Located in Cather’s childhood hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, the … an 1887 structure that was fully restored and given new life as the National Willa Cather Center. Become a Member Shop the Bookstore …
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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

… Miriam Mountford Volunteer of the Year . Leroy’s stepson Jim Owens, our sites manager since 2019, said that when Leroy … surprise to him and his wife, Janet Maruhn. Janet is Jim Owens’s mother and works as a tour guide at the National …
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