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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

… Image The Willa Cather Childhood Home in her restored glory (April 2024) Image … 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 assumed this position after twenty-five years of teaching both English and art, almost entirely within the … Nebraska Arts Council, Betty exhibited forty mixed media works at the Walker Gallery in the Good Samaritan Hospital …
Posted: 07/14/2023
Last Updated: 08/30/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … Wide Interest in Willa Cather p. 3  10th Anniversary of Foundation p. 3  Future Event with John G. Neihardt p. 4  … p. 1  Conference Schedule p. 1  A Cornish Childhood p. 2  Gallery Holds "Feelings": Four Lucy Gayheart Paintings by …
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 … sharing their passion on social media. We hope they will donate as well as spread the word." Gallagher added that the …
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 March 25, … sharing their passion on social media. We hope they will donate as well as spread the word.” Gallagher added that the …
Posted: 01/04/2015
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are commemorating acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s 150th year with a host of special events … Cather , Red Cloud, NE: a special Red Cloud Opera House Gallery exhibit of international works honoring the birth …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 12/31/2024

Support

… Support Support the NWCC Located in Cather’s childhood hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, the … that was fully restored and given new life as the National Willa Cather Center. Become a Member Shop the Bookstore … the house, sparing it from demolition. Her intention is to donate it to a nonprofit within a year. The Willa Cather …
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 …
Posted: 01/09/2025
Last Updated: 01/09/2025

Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!

… on several guided tours, including our new My Ántonia tour. Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season! Explore • … cities in Europe where I used to love to go . . ." -Willa Cather in a letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood While Willa … trip. We offer a variety of guided historic site tours, lodging, and events year round at the National Willa Cather …
Posted: 11/13/2024
Last Updated: 11/17/2024

Historic Sites

… dedicated to an American author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the … to sixteen. The house is described in detail in the short stories “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best Years,” and … Cather’s attic bedroom retains the wallpaper she selected while she worked in Dr. Henry Cook's drugstore. In …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

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