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Guided Town Tour
… Guided Town Tour Driving Tour Guests should have their own … Children: (5 & under) – Free Book a Tour Willa Cather Childhood Home 245 N Cedar Street The Cather family lived in this home …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Charles and Mary Virginia Cather rented the home through 1904. Many of Cather’s books depict life in Red Cloud and … Cather house is vividly described in Cather's novel, The Song of the Lark , and short stories, “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 04/25/2024
Join Our Team
… An economic resurgence in the rural community has been underway for more than a decade. Hotel Garber will meet a growing … Willa Cather Center is a supermajority owner alongside six private investors. Summary/Objective: This is a … and 25 lbs. occasionally. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be …
Posted: 09/07/2023
Last Updated: 04/25/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… Image George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic … publish there; it serialized her first novel, Alexander's Bridge , in 1912. Once she had completed her second novel …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States … that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871 — In Silas Garber’s dugout, Webster County and the … close friend. 1912 — Cather’s first novel, Alexander’s Bridge , appears in McClure’s as Alexander’s Masquerade . …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
18th International Willa Cather Seminar
… most of her professional writing life in New York (1906-1947), first in Greenwich Village and later, after she had … and professional life. Seminar check-in is at the Lang Café building, located at 65 W. 11th, first floor. A full … Award from the W.A. Percy Foundation. An Abbreviated Tour of Cather's Greenwich Village Take an hourlong stroll …
Posted: 06/05/2019
Last Updated: 06/22/2023
Historic Sites
… Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa … she would leave something that she could never recover; memories of pleasant excitement, of happy adventures in her mind; of warm sleep on howling winter nights, and joyous awakenings on summer mornings.” — …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
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
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