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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund
… Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation efforts As American author Willa Cather’s 150th was celebrated in 2023, her birth home, a rural … remains a testament to the humble, rural origins of a great writer who, toward the end of her life, struggled to …
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Willa Cather Foundation Collection Continues to Grow
… music through the air out of the silence of the attic. As one of the members of the committee that worked to raise the … Perry (“G. P.”) Cather, the model for Claude Wheeler in One of Ours , was their middle child (of five). Many once carefully …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the … turned down speaking engagements, lectures, and even club appearances, but she was urged by her publisher, Alfred … women. Alfred says one can't refuse to take a medal, no matter how little one wants it." To do so, she tells friend …
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Annotations from the Archive: The Death of G.P. Cather
… The Death of G.P. Cather June 20, 2022 The centenary of One of Ours , Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize–winner for fiction, … death on May 28, 1918, at the battle for Cantigny, France—one of the American infantry’s defining battles—details …
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… and given new life as the National Willa Cather Center. Become a Member Shop the Bookstore Become a Member Become a Member Make A Donation Make A …
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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
… Our Miriam Mountford Volunteer of the Year January 6, 2021 One silver lining of 2020 was that we were able to get … started volunteering last year he was quite clear about one thing. “I don’t want anything, I don’t want anything … anonymity is not likely to happen in a small nonprofit like ours where we are appreciative of, and reliant upon, the …
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