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Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights
Image Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights April 3, 2023 Though Willa Cather is well-known around the world as a novelist, her first published work was a collection of poems, April Twilights . For both researchers and Cather fans, our archival …
Posted: 04/03/2023
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive—The Right Reverend George Allen Beecher Letters
Image Annotations from the Archive—The Right Reverend George Allen Beecher Letters June 25, 2020 The Right Reverend George Allen Beecher, who served as Bishop of Western Nebraska from 1910-1943, shared a long friendship with Willa Cather, and with the …
Posted: 06/25/2020
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Literary Societies—Annotations from the Archive
Image Image Literary Societies—Annotations from the Archive August 17, 2020 When we think about students returning to school, we always think of Frances Cather, Willa Cather's Mount Holyoke-educated aunt who came West to Nebraska in a wagon in 1873. …
Posted: 08/17/2020
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Explore the Collection Online
Annotations from the Archive: Explore the Collection Online February 16, 2021 The Cather family, their friends, and many other donors have been very generous to the National Willa Cather Center over the years, contributing to collections that were begun …
Posted: 02/16/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
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
Image Image Annotations from the Archive: Business Papers July 20, 2021 When the prohibition on publication of Willa Cather’s letters expired, a wealth of new Willa Cather biographical material could be shared with Cather’s readers—and in her own words! …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions
… and "The Origin of Thanksgiving" article, directly at the links above at the Willa Cather Archive at the University …
Posted: 11/20/2019
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Our Photo Collections Continue to Grow
Image Image Image Annotations from the Archive: Our Photo Collections Continue to Grow April 22, 2021 Two charming portraits received this month by archivist Tracy Tucker aptly illustrate the range of donors to our Willa Cather Foundation Special …
Posted: 04/19/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Herbaria of Webster County
… names of our own for them." When Willa Cather described her prairie childhood in "The Education You Have to Fight For," … how they struggled to apply their Eastern educations to the lands of the West. We're inspired too, to think about how we … ttucker@willacather.org. You can also schedule a guided prairie tour (but please, no specimen collecting!) by …
Posted: 06/17/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: On Writing Themes
… Image Annotations from the Archive: On Writing Themes August 16, 2021 August in Nebraska is a hot and hazy, … Sherer’s class in Red Cloud, and she may have begun writing themes under the watchful eyes of more educated family …
Posted: 08/16/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023