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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund
… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation efforts As American author Willa Cather’s 150th was celebrated in 2023, … who, toward the end of her life, struggled to write the story of her home state. Sapphira and the Slave Girl …
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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
Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings August 1, 2023 As has been noted so often before, there exists within Willa Cather so many interesting dualities. She was intensely engaged with her small …
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Annotations from the Archive: The Death of G.P. Cather
… of G.P. Cather June 20, 2022 The centenary of One of Ours , Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize–winner for fiction, allows us … The entire novel is inspired by real lives and real events, from G.P.’s prewar life and marriage to his final … the death of Lieutenant Cather were relayed to his wife, Myrtle Bartlett Cather, and his parents, George and Frances …
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… Support Support the NWCC Located in Cather’s childhood hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, the … museum, archive, research center, classroom, bookstore, art gallery, and performing arts center. The Center occupies Red … an early twentieth century farmstead of an immigrant farm family in Nebraska. Our aim is to create a space that …
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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
… many of our historic sites and properties. Quietly helping us along the way was Leroy Maruhn , our 2020 Miriam … Leroy started volunteering last year he was quite clear about one thing. “I don’t want anything, I don’t want … we are appreciative of, and reliant upon, the generous support and good graces of others. Leroy is a humble man and …
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