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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

… Image The Willa Cather Childhood Home in her restored glory (April 2024) … Image Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting Program | June 8, 2024 Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting A … Olsen, Director of Education & Engagement View the image gallery below—and download designs of our souvenir program, …
Posted: 06/13/2024
Last Updated: 06/15/2024

Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… Image Willa's Cradle, by Betty Kort Image Out in the Kitchen, by Betty Kort Art Gallery Wednesday, Jul 19 - Saturday, Nov 4, 2023 | All day In 2007, photographer and Willa Cather Foundation executive director Betty Kort created …
Posted: 07/14/2023
Last Updated: 08/30/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Cather Week at Union College  AUTHOR: Deborah Leonard-Lethbridge p. 17  WLA Meets in Denver p. 18  TITLE: In Pursuit … Ántonia p. 45  Four Cather letters received from Alice Woodbridge p. 46  James Work calls for quotations from Death … p. 57  TITLE: Liminality in Willa Cather's Alexander's Bridge and The Professor’s House  AUTHOR: Mary Chinery, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Ken Burns Announces Creation of National Willa Cather Center

… Image Ken Burns Announces Creation of National Willa Cather Center March 18, 2014 The Willa Cather Foundation has … research center, classroom, expanded bookstore and art gallery, dressing rooms and backstage facilities for the Red …
Posted: 09/11/2014
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center

… Image Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center … center. The facility, which will be located in Cather’s childhood home of Red Cloud, Nebraska, will provide almost … research center, classroom, expanded bookstore and art gallery, dressing rooms and backstage facilities for the Red …
Posted: 01/04/2015
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are … Littleton Alston's statuette of Willa Cather, a recent gift to the library where it will be permanently displayed … from Cather's fiction, journalism, and letters written or set in Pittsburgh between 1896 and 1929 • Birthday cookies …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 12/31/2024

Support

… Cather loved about Webster County.   Contribute to this Campaign The Willa Cather Birthplace Support for Future Preservation Willa Cather's birth home, a rural …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 03/31/2026

My Ántonia: The Story of a Great American Novel

… Free Event at the Joslyn! Special Events Saturday, Jan 18, 2025 | 1:30 - 2:30pm The Joslyn Art Museum 2200 Dodge … and a novel that is part of today’s literary canon,  My Ántonia’s  worldwide appeal is demonstrated by its … 15-19: See Tim Youd ’s (American, b. 1967) Willa Cather’s My Ántonia , on view in Hawks Pavilion Gallery H8, and plan …
Posted: 01/09/2025
Last Updated: 01/09/2025

Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!

… Interested in planning a trip? Browse our website, and the links below, or contact Nick Powers, Visitor Services …
Posted: 11/13/2024
Last Updated: 11/17/2024

Historic Sites

… from the ages of ten to sixteen. The house is described in detail in the short stories “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best Years,” and Cather's attic bedroom is described in detail in her 1915 novel The Song of the Lark. The home was … a diverse schedule that includes theater, music, lectures, gallery exhibits, and much more. The Opera House was donated …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

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