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Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory

… but ,as a child, I was not aware of the hardships.  We always ate well thanks to big gardens, canning, and homegrown … do art when I grew up. I was able to take some lessons from private teachers and workshops. I studied art books and did … In the 1990s, I did a lot of mural work in businesses and private homes. This gave me the opportunity to paint BIG. I …
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Finding Aids

…  ____________ Bulk dates:  1878-1921 Finding Aid created by Lucy Koenig and Tracy Sanford Tucker, 2023 Copyright: … Mildred Bennett Collection documents the organizational and scholarly work of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial’s … (Copy pp. 47-72 199-200)     Manuscript Tx-50-4000-F05 Lucy Gayheart  Typescript (Copy pp. 22-118)     Magazine …
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Join Our Team

… at the National Willa Cather Center The Willa Cather Foundation—formerly the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial—is a … our guestbook as well as complete a satisfaction survey about their experience Answer the phone when the Visitors … the owners of the hotel by achieving the objectives of the annual budget. The GM will be responsible for marketing the …
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Historic Sites

… thing I miss most is the opera house.” —Willa Cather, 1929 Moon Block Adjoining the Opera House is the Moon Block, named for its original investor, Michigan Senator John Moon. The Moon Block is home to the National Willa Cather …
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Willa Cather Biography

… University of Nebraska Press. The Willa Cather Review , a well-illustrated analytical periodical that reaches a broad … House , and  Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny enclave of French culture that was Quebec City at the … and Aunt Franc, who were already homesteading a district known locally as Catherton. Cather alighted with her family …
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Collections Policies

… on availability of trained staff; blackout periods will apply as determined by the archivist; Researchers will …
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Willa Cather as Creator: Breaking the Mold and Carving a Place in History

… to an American author. During her tenure, the Center’s assets have grown by more than $13 million, and Willa …
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Willa Cather and Her Illustrators

… a path for artists to achieve nationwide recognition, in a way that gallery exhibition and private collection could not. Cather and the artists who … art, and that it is worth caring about, than in any other way.” This exhibit explores eight of Cather’s illustrators, …
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Virtual Author Series: Ladette Randolph

… with writer Ladette Randolph as she discusses her novel Private Way . Set in 2015, protagonist Vivi Marx winds up off the …
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Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker

… well, along with more personal belongings. She was such a private person that I would love to know more about she and … student, Chris Wolak. My favorite collection item will always and forever be the brass and steel bloodletting lancet … perhaps in unprocessed collections or maybe in the hands of private collectors. It’s wonderful to imagine what might yet …
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