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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn … The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings in some of Cather’s most popular writings, …
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Historic Sites
… built in 1883 and used until 1903. The design is modest and simple, with “poor man’s stained-glass” applied to the windows made from a simple white paint featuring swirl designs. A surprise to …
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School Field Trips
… Home & More The National Willa Cather Center offers customizable experiences for students of all ages and grade … the current exhibit on display in the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery. Take part in an archival learning activity. … staff. Not sure how to get started planning your visit? Contact Rachel Olsen, director of education and engagement …
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Conservation of Willa Cather's Attic Bedroom Wallpaper
… " Cather Wallpaper Preservation Project, " Pure Nebraska video segment with Jon Vanderford, May 9, 2019 "Save …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's … Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … seven children raised by Charles and Mary Virginia Cather. Cathers had been in the area since the 1700s, and Back …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas Garber, … Gere, Cather visits Brownville, Nebraska. A feature story about Brownville titled "The Old River Metropolis" was …
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Annotations from the Archives: American Archives Month
… wonderful, and crucially, it's taken a big leap forward in functionality. Our web design team at Unanimous took our … to making the website and the whole organization function. Another debt of gratitude is owed to our …
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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes
… Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie "We come and … roads "—just as Willa Cather described them in My Ántonia . In summer and early fall, you can also catch the …
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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 …
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The Collections at National Willa Cather Center
… browse our Finding Aids or search for individual items in our Collection Gallery . Conducting Research … by Elizabeth Shown Mills. Because we offer digital assets as well as housing physical collections, we suggest … in your citation: Identification of the original item (Inventory Number, Collection name and Repository), …
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