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Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day
… day when the veterans of World War I were honored, and our collections are rich with museum and archival items that … of Ladies' Home Journal is just one such example from our collections. In One of Ours, Cather wrote: "It was curious . … 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
… Willa Cather was the member of the Cather family who shared life in early Nebraska with a reading public, she … our new exhibition, Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud , in the lower level of the Farmers and Merchants Bank … His journal of a return trip to Virginia includes his visits to his boyhood home Willow Shade , old friends and …
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 … 2023 As has been noted so often before, there exists within Willa Cather so many interesting dualities. She was … unless taken in the right setting, and she worried too about her own appearance. "Myself, I think the public …
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
… Image Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker October 30, … & Curation as part of an internal restructuring. Learn more about Tracy and her new role—and what this means for the organization and for our Collections and Archives! You have many diverse interests, talents, and work …
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 Willa … These values guide the decisions and actions of our board, staff, and volunteers. Creativity: We encourage the … that museums are spaces to have courageous conversations about the complex history we share, and we seek transparent …
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 town. … the very buildings and landscapes that Willa Cather wrote about or lived in — whether it is her childhood bedroom and … nothing in the virtual center of the lower 48-states. MORE ABOUT THE PRAIRIE LANDSCAPE Spend a Night in the Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/05/2024
Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days
… (March 28, 1897), with these observations at the start of Cather's early and prolific career in magazine writing and … literary tastes are, her club standing, her home, her legal studies, how she came to take them up etc. You know what I … bank he is president of. Well I did'nt mean to write you a volume, and of course nothing may come of it. But my …
Posted: 05/19/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Business Papers
… prohibition on publication of Willa Cather’s letters expired, a wealth of new Willa Cather biographical material … farm was the worst looking piece of farm land between Red Cloud and Hastings.” Cather was particularly dismayed to … research into Cather’s business affairs, make plans to visit! The archives at the National Willa Cather Center are …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Discovering Emanuel Prettyman
… As we begin to commemorate the centenary of One of Ours , Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize-winner for Fiction, we look … newspaper copies, was printed in the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter & Review in 1989. When Dr. Steven Trout … visited Red Cloud to conduct research for his book Memorial Fictions in the mid-1990s, he discovered that in the few …
Posted: 04/23/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023