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Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day
… Roll of Honor for Grosvenor P. Cather Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day November 5, 2024 On November 11, … day when the veterans of World War I were honored, and our collections are rich with museum and archival items that … as Veterans Day to honor veterans of all U.S. wars. You can learn more about the history of Armistice Day and Veteran's …
Posted: 11/04/2024
Last Updated: 11/05/2024
Annotations from the Archives: Homesteading and Home-Building in the Archives
… Annotations from the Archives: Homesteading and Home-Building in the Archives … in the newly-formed Webster County. Several of our earliest collections feature museum objects and papers related to the … our archivist with any questions about the collection or to learn more about our collections which may not yet be …
Posted: 08/16/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023
Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the … her small hometown, even as she became a traveler of the world; she was down-to-earth and plain spoken, but she … the painting and Cather's writing more generally around the world, but most heavily here in Nebraska. "To let young …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023
Museum Collections Associate Wanted!
… Museum Collections Associate Wanted! December 5, 2022 Job Title: … related to the care and preservation of our collections and archives. This person will be trained in the use of … organizational skills. Ability to follow instructions and learn proper methods of preservation procedures. Shows …
Posted: 12/05/2022
Last Updated: 12/28/2022
Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker
… 2022 Although Tracy Tucker has been with the Willa Cather Foundation for a decade as Director of Education, she was … & Curation as part of an internal restructuring. Learn more about Tracy and her new role—and what this means for the … but when I saw the job listed again years later, I just felt like it was meant to be. Please explain more about …
Posted: 10/24/2022
Last Updated: 11/22/2022
The Willa Cather Foundation
… Image The Willa Cather Foundation dba the National Willa Cather Center The … and groups of all backgrounds, worldviews, and identities. Learning: We continuously learn and teach. Professionalism: … and conservation of the 612-acre Willa Cather Memorial Prairie ; Coordination of an immersive summer teacher …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/08/2024
Willa Cather's Red Cloud
… Image Willa Cather's Red Cloud Walk in her footsteps. Stay in her … of a quiet country town and its prairie surroundings. To visit Red Cloud is to experience a town and entire landscapes, largely unchanged, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/05/2024
Annotations from the Archive: Business Papers
… Cloud and Hastings.” Cather was particularly dismayed to learn the farms she owned in Webster County were also in … into Cather’s business affairs, make plans to visit! The archives at the National Willa Cather Center are open … of your time in Nebraska, you should also visit the Cather collections at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days
… and prolific career in magazine writing and editing: “Miss Willa Cather, the editor of the Home Monthly , is not … as a writer, and the successes of her future brilliant fiction. You can read more about her views on magazine … I was very demure and discussed flower gardening church music…” To Will Owen Jones (January 15, 1897) — “I may not …
Posted: 05/19/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Discovering Emanuel Prettyman
… copies, was printed in the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter & Review in 1989. When Dr. Steven Trout visited Red Cloud to … only image of Prettyman identified. Research continues to learn more about Prettyman’s life; his military records and …
Posted: 04/23/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023