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Willa Cather's Red Cloud
… Nebraska is not just a destination. It’s a place where literature and culture merge with the pleasures of a quiet … the night sky. Take a walk (and bring a picnic) amidst the great ocean of land that rolls around you. Listen only to … Red Cloud with a fresh idea of Willa Cather and the Great Plains. Come witness the sites and sounds that changed …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/05/2024
Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal
… and reappraise many of the objects acquired when the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial was a nebulous new idea, yet to be … your letter and I will be delighted to write you a little later of a wonderful talk I had with Willa Cather years ago … really found herself in relation to writing in the Nebraska novels. She said that she was convinced that the great thing …
Posted: 02/21/2024
Last Updated: 02/21/2024
The Willa Cather Foundation
… Image The Willa Cather Foundation dba the National Willa Cather Center The … and conservation of the 612-acre Willa Cather Memorial Prairie ; Curation of exhibits featuring artifacts from the … We call this inclusive design thinking. Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a 501(c)(3) …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 02/01/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … the narrative proper begins with the very autobiographical experience Cather described. Transposed to Jim Burden, the … a prominent writer herself, and the three made a well-known visit with A. E. Housman, then a poet Cather much admired. …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Discover
… of nationally-designated historic sites dedicated to an American author. For Readers For Readers For Writers For … Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to celebrating the work, life, and legacy of this great American writer. Through our scholarly endeavors, …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 12/27/2023
Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund
… a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund Funds needed for … and promotion of Cather's Virginia legacy. The Willa Cather Foundation is proud to be working collaboratively with Willa … by family members who, in her father’s family, had supported the Union and, in her mother’s family, had fought …
Posted: 05/23/2023
Last Updated: 12/06/2023
Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States … Register of Historic Places and open year-round for guided tours. Winter 1883 to 1884 — Willa Cather attends a … Cather’s brother James Cather is born. Silas Garber begins building the Farmers and Merchants Bank in downtown Red …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Pavelka Farmstead
… 4 near Bladen. Restored and managed by the National Willa Cather Center, the Pavelka Farmstead was chosen as one of … My Ántonia at 100 (issue theme) — Willa Cather Review, Volume 60: No. 3, Winter 2018 New Scholarship on My Ántonia … Plains Quarterly , Spring 1994, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln From the National …
Posted: 12/05/2014
Last Updated: 09/08/2023
Press Room
… that follow for contact information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, and the work of the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Contact … D.C. Willa Cather (1873-1947) is an author of complex American stories, Cather wrote from a perspective and in a …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
Organization History
… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group … intertwined with Cather’s fictional worlds. Bennett’s 1951 biography The World of Willa Cather is still widely used by scholars as a valuable …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023