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Remembrances of Mildred Bennett Sought

… Image Remembrances of Mildred Bennett Sought January 28, 2020 In collaboration … that preserves and interprets that world for those of us living today, Fellows considers Mildred Bennett to be a … my questions in advance, so you would have time to think about things. If you would prefer to respond to my questions …
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George Wells' Orphan Train Experience

… would come along and pick me up and then she left. The older sisters—when I was there—one was fourteen and the … about where Grand Central Station is now. The two girls was old enough that they could press clothes and could make … youngest on the train. And I suppose I had to be six years old before they would take me on the train to be put in a …
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Serena's Album

… appear in the album, which is not chronological — people selected blank pages randomly when they made their entries. … settlement known as “Elora” — Mrs. Keifer gives it as her home — was essentially a post office in search of a town, … of church music. Hattie’s favorite amusement, “Jack Stories,” come from Appalachian oral tradition, tales of a …
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Finding Aids

… c/o Todd, Frank L. Trowbridge, Augustus Tyrrell, William Undset, Sigrid Van Vechten, Carl Vermorcken [see Moorhead] … Bennett Book Inventory Box 17—Mementos, Photos, Gifts, Notes, including: Map of Grand Manan Drawings … Notes April Twilights BK-50-301 Willa Cather 1903 1st ed.   Three small manuscript corrections in ink in Cather's hand …
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Annotations from the Archives: The World of Willa Cather

… Annotations from the Archives: The World of Willa Cather Bennett's Book Helped Launch Cather Studies February … and personal papers, provides a one-of-a-kind window into early Cather studies, literary tourism, and 1950s museology … life of this rather elusive author, and the origins of her novels and stories. Image Jacks and Bennett During Mildred …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… country focus on educating patrons and the general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the … the questions she gets most often. How do you pronounce Cather? According to Henry Blackman Sell in a short article for the Chicago Daily News , Cather is "pronounced to rhyme with rather, if you …
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Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud

… efforts led by the National Willa Cather Center's founder, Mildred Bennett. More About the Project One of Red Cloud’s most arresting … Lyra and Silas Garber during her childhood in Red Cloud and used them as prototypes for Captain and Mrs. Forrester in A …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia

… by the difficulties and the beauties of the world they must contend with. It is also true, though, that we read … remains a revelation.”  — Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley About My Ántonia When critic Randolph Bourne heralded  My … Adolph Hitler’s bathtub at the close of World War II. When Mildred Bennett began work on the Willa Cather Pioneer …
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Annotations from the Archives: October is American Archives Month

… Archives Month, a time when we educate students and patrons about the value of archives. It’s easy to make the … the very fabric of democracy, since the French Revolution ushered in the idea of centralized, publicly accessible … you might imagine! In our organization's earliest days, Mildred Bennett, our founder, spent a great deal of time …
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Guided Three Building Downtown Tour

… the Farmers and Merchants Bank, and the Red Cloud Opera House. Visitors will also have an opportunity to explore two … guests the opportunity to deepen their core knowledge about Willa Cather's early life in the Nebraska town that … efforts led by the National Willa Cather Center's founder, Mildred Bennett. Red Cloud Opera House 413 N Webster Street …
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