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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 … Nov 4, 2023 | All day In 2007, photographer and Willa Cather Foundation executive director Betty Kort created … particularly the visual arts. As Cather chose to view the world through the eyes of a visual artist, painting pictures …
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 Table of Contents This Table of Contents for the Willa Cather Review was compiled by Virgil and Dolores …
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 March 25, … us a nation.” Tom Gallagher, Willa Cather Foundation board president explained, “The vision for the National … Visit www.WillaCather.org to learn more. More About the National Willa Cather Center (NWCC): Please see …
Posted: 01/04/2015
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are … download the National Willa Cather Center app for virtual tours . Organizations or communities that would like to … House, Red Cloud, NE Nov 8 & Nov 12 — Cather's Santa Fe: A Walking Tour , 1:00-3:30 p.m. MT, Santa Fe, NM Nov 9 — …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 12/31/2024

Support

… is in disrepair, will require significant restoration in order to be saved. In May 2023 a Virginia realtor purchased …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 03/31/2026

My Ántonia: The Story of a Great American Novel

… Image Willa Cather Free Event at the Joslyn! Special Events Saturday, … 1967) Willa Cather’s My Ántonia , on view in Hawks Pavilion Gallery H8, and plan to attend a variety of special programs … Services; and the rehabilitation of the Willa Cather Childhood Home, a National Historic Landmark through a “Save …
Posted: 01/09/2025
Last Updated: 01/09/2025

Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!

… to you that I would rather go home to Red Cloud than to any of the beautiful cities in Europe where I used to love to go … While Willa Cather only spent the second half of her childhood in Red Cloud, she returned often to visit family and friends. She once wrote, "I always return to Nebraska." You …
Posted: 11/13/2024
Last Updated: 11/17/2024

Historic Sites

… time I talked about Cather in Webster County,” Mildred Bennett said in an interview. “I would tell the audience … mornings.” — The Song of the Lark Burlington Depot Red Cloud’s Burlington Depot was donated to the Willa Cather … 1965. Efforts to save the depot were extensive, requiring relocation and a full restoration—the result of the railroad's …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

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