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Guided Town Tour
… Guided Town Tour Driving Tour Guests should have their own … household items throughout the home. Burlington Depot 437 W. Welsch Street Cather uses the depot in many of her … in 1947. Farmers & Merchants Bank 338 N Webster Street This building was erected in 1889 by Silas Garber, fourth …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Join Our Team
… Join Our Team Career Opportunities at the National Willa Cather Center The Willa Cather Foundation—formerly the … Rendering of Hotel Garber Job Title: General Manager Location: Hotel Garber, Red Cloud, Nebraska Classification: … a boutique hotel under construction in Red Cloud, Nebraska, childhood home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa …
Posted: 09/07/2023
Last Updated: 03/21/2024
Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Exterior of the restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Image Earliest image of the Willa … in more than fifty years. A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa Cather Childhood Home was …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 01/18/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … Cather critic, the late Susan J. Rosowski, published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Willa Cather Timeline
… and is buried near a crossroads. Cather, on whom almost nothing was lost, will later use this event in one of her … Nebraska State Journal . Her first regular column appears under the heading “One Way of Putting It.” Silas Garber’s … — Knopf publishes Cather’s only book of essays, Not Under Forty . In the book’s introduction, Cather states that for …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
18th International Willa Cather Seminar
… , NY 10011 United States "Bright and Beautiful and Alive": Willa Cather's New York Intersections We hope you will make plans … well as the 2022 Warren Johansson Award from the W.A. Percy Foundation. An Abbreviated Tour of Cather's Greenwich …
Posted: 06/05/2019
Last Updated: 06/22/2023
Historic Sites
… restored exterior finishes, but will also offer accessible tours for those with mobility limitations. “When she went … removing redundant facilities from major lines. To save the building from destruction, it was moved from its original … Catholic church in Red Cloud. The church was built in 1883 and used until 1903. The design is modest and simple, with …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Emil Frei Windows Are Beautiful Inside—And Out!
… is Cather’s letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood, sent on June 7, 1928. Written just three months after her father’s death, … roof on the church. It seems then, as now, the old church building was being improved and repaired! But we know from … Hospital administration by arriving for an unannounced tour. We can only conjecture about when memorial windows …
Posted: 12/15/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection
… to the Willa Cather Foundation over several years. In 1987, acclaimed actress Julie Harris accepted the invitation of … Harris joined four hundred other Cather enthusiasts for bus tours of Webster County literary sites, visits to St. … an Omaha benefit performance “for the Cather Foundation building fund,” Bennett wrote. The performance would have to …
Posted: 10/20/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding
… conclude restoration work on the Farmers and Merchants Bank building, we now undertake the work of reinterpreting the … The bank has always been a part of our guided town tour, but the renovated spaces will soon allow our guests to … short a time. From David Helvern’s letter to the editor, 1875: I think [an aid organization] in every township or road …
Posted: 12/16/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023