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Finding Aids
… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/14/2024
The Willa Cather Foundation
… Image The Willa Cather Foundation dba the National Willa Cather Center The … and conservation of the 612-acre Willa Cather Memorial Prairie ; Coordination of an immersive summer teacher … We call this inclusive design thinking. Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a 501(c)(3) …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/08/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … are the primary attraction, in many ways Willa Cather the person looms large in the critical interest her works have … Nebraska P, 2000. Bohlke, Brent L. Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters . Lincoln: U of …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… as she became a traveler of the world; she was down-to-earth and plain spoken, but she enjoyed the niceties that her … to indicate the most pertinent portion of the review or article. Our collections include hundreds of such clippings, … distant relatives, kindly people whom I had known in some part of the United States. . . . From this experience I …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023
Annotations from the Archives: The Library
… local organizations or simply had to purchase their own small selection of reading materials. In 1913, the new Red Cloud YMCA created a library in one of its rooms, with material donated by the P.E.O. club, … It's unclear what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/11/2023
Organization History
… early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small group of Red Cloud citizens, interested individuals, … Cather, great woman, great literary artist, who once was one of ours and now belongs to the great world and to time, … Sites and the collection became known as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection. The Foundation later assumed …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
National Willa Cather Center
… National Willa Cather Center be the welcome center and departure point for all aspects of your day trip or a more … In 2017, the National Willa Cather Center opened as an arts and cultural center that serves as a living memorial to … museum, archive, research center, classroom, bookstore, art gallery, and performing arts center. The Center occupies Red …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Virtual Author Series: Dr. Rebecca Faber
… to welcome Dr. Rebecca Faber to talk about her book, One Small Photo , a collection of poetry and one short story that was …
Posted: 07/09/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker
… backgrounds, such as prairie botany and gardening skills, photography and graphic design, and you have worked as a … you remember that we were first called the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, and so a great many of Red Cloud’s oldest … keep things—her fan mail is a great example—but living in small New York spaces, keeping must have been hard. I think …
Posted: 10/24/2022
Last Updated: 11/22/2022
Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns
… fixing any errors. Currently, I’m reviewing the archive’s photo collection and then digitizing them for future use. … are, unfortunately, missing. But there are some really good ones (with Beauty and the Beast costumes and elephants … I wasn’t walking with my grandparents). They lived in the small town of West Point, so I was already familiar with …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 08/17/2021