I greatly enjoyed the site --I had the good fortune to have Bruce Baker as one of my professors at University of Nebraska at Omaha (one of my favorite professors) and, through his Willa Cather course, developed a deep and abiding love for Willa Cather that has stayed with me!  Thank goodness your foundation and organization is keeping that part of Nebraska Literary History alive for all to enjoy.  Please extend my best wishes to Dr. Baker ---it's been over 30 years and I still remember all the great classes I took with him and the great Willa Cather discussions!

Best regards,

Cindy Wickstrom

Glendale, AZ (UNO class of 1981)

I've enjoyed learning more about an author I've read through school. Thank you for your hard work.

Sincerely,

April Jordan :)

I have to say I agree with the comment below. I was there this month and had a fantastic visit. I did get to take the tour and Dorothy was my guide. There is nothing better then getting a tour from someone that knew Mildred Bennett. It was my pleasure to have made it to Nebraska and to have took the tour. I will be back and will have friends.

You have such a great staff at the Willa Cather Foundation. I was there to visit for the first time in June and loved every minute of it. I will be sure to come back and have time to take the tour. That was my only disappointment was that i did not give myself the time to be there longer. But you give me great brochures and information. Until we meet again....

Sammie

Thank you so much for an entertaining and educational tour. My dad and I came from Omaha on Friday July 9th and took the 7 building tour through Red Cloud. I enjoyed learning more about Cather's life and the town of Red Cloud itself. Our tour guide was both knowledgable and friendly. It was a day I'll remember for a long while,

Sincerely,

Amy Katt

English Teacher/UNK Grad student

I am a new visitor to the website although I have known about you for many years.  I attended the University of Nebraska along with my father and his brothers so I am aware of Ms Cather as a Nebraska author.  I also happened on her birthplace in VA where I lived for a number of years.

My book group is reading My Antonia at my request so I will be spreading the word about the foundation and the website.  It has been a lovley visit and great to re read My Antonia after many many years

I have just finished re-reading "Death Comes For the Archbishop," in connection with a book club that I belong. The book was my pick, and I hope the other members of our club enjoyed it as much as I did. For those of us who live in New Mexico the book is especially meaningful. I have been to almost all of the places mentioned in NM and Arizona. Fortunately, unlike the Archbishop, I did not have t walk. I am getting a new car in a few days and am starting to think that a trip to Red Cloud might be fun. I have always wanted to spend a bit of time on an undisturbed bit of prairie.

Regards, bueno bye,

Joe Stephenson

Hey what’s up?This is like my morning coffee, I mean your web blog, I’ve been an ignorant on so many topics but thanks to you I learned much. Umbeliveble how I believe something and then I discover that the reality is totally different. Your articles are great to say the least. I love, love, love your blogs! I love your articles by the way, you’ve done an excellent job with your website!

This ladie was a good writer i read my Antonia..and it was amazing

As a long time journalist and 20 year resident of New Mexico, of course I am a devotee of Ms. Cather. Curiously, however, her short shorty, Neighbor Rosicky is my favorite of her works and I have read it many, may times.

And as I also have lived in the Midwest for some time, I share that with her too--although I am not the fan of the plains she was.

Your website is wonderful and I am excited that I will indeed visit Red Cloud one day. That is a tribute coming from me--who never thought she would become excited about visiting anything in Nebraska. (Smile)

I lived in New Mexico for 20 years and had to move back to Iowa after a divorce where I felt I could best bring up my son and daughter and, it turned out, take care of my  ailing father  as well.

I read Ms. Cather's short story, Neighbor Rosicky, just the other night and it touched me in a way that tears rimmed my eyes. It reminded me of "Matryona's House," a shortstory by Alexander Solzinitsky. As was the case with Matryona, I have read it now over and over and I believe a quality we overlook in writers is their ability create characters who are paradigms of compassion and every other fine human quality there is, but are quie about it and no one perhaps recognizes it until they are gone.

It is funny, I relished "The Archbishop" but was not so keenly moved. I would like, however, to find out how much of the material in that book was fiction and how much was actual folklore and history--as my 20 years there was spent as a journalist. Much of what the beautiful writer wrote was factual, particularly the geographical material, I know, but I am curious saya bout the tyrannical old priest on Acoma and a hundred other things.

What an amazing woman she was and how privileged we are to have her work with us for all time!

hi i like all the buildings that i tour

i hope i can go back this summer

Thank you Taylur Hein

HEy

Guess what? Im Willa Cather's great great niece. I've traveled all around Berryville, Virginia and still learning loads about her. I only found out a year or two ago that I was related to her. It still a little shocking but i will say i haven't been to those places in nebraska but my family has told me stories in Berryville about her and that ranch.