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71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Willa Cather at Bowdoin College Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather … Jun 4 - Saturday, Jun 6, 2026 | All day CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 … “From Typescripts, to Magazine Novelette, to Book: The Writing and Publication of My Mortal Enemy ” with Melissa …
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Cather Legacy Society

… advisors or Ashley Olson, Executive Director at 402-746-2653 or  aolson@willacather.org . Image Cather Legacy Society … by the Immigrant Experience Abbie Loomis first discovered My Ántonia as a teenager and has been reading her mother's copy …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… 2023 Schedule of Events Feb 17 — Kearney Library, Kearney, Nebraska: 12:00 p.m. — Rachel Olsen, Director of Education & … Willa Cather Center and is being performed throughout Nebraska in 2023. Feb 24–25 — Animal Engine Theater … by the Cather Archive and Cather Project at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, FREE, 3:00-5:00 p.m. • Ethel S. Abbott …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… She joins Ponca Chief Standing Bear, installed in 2019, as one of two new sculptures that represent Nebraska. The … in the centenary year of her Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska … incorporated. These include a turquoise jacket that was a gift to Cather from her editors, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, …
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Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library

… join us for a sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured American writers of … groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , Death Comes for the … a fireproof vault for safe keeping of town records.” Her gift was part of a pattern of philanthropists funding public …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about … Willa Cather Childhood Home reopened for tours on December 7, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s 150th birthday. The … and extensive repairs to the windows and doors sealed the building envelope, which will limit exposure to the elements …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway Set to Reopen in … Benefit Ongoing Preservation Efforts! Donate Now The Willa Cather Childhood Home is a national treasure, one of only … National Willa Cather Center and participate in guided town tours of six additional historic properties related to …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United … Register of Historic Places and open year-round for guided tours. Winter 1883 to 1884  — Willa Cather attends a one-room … need, sends $50 to Annie Sadilek Pavelka to be used for a gift. Annie uses the money to pay for taxes on her farm …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration … cedar shingle roof, gutters, and downspouts Repair of the foundation and reconstruction of window wells Retention of … 30-minute narrated tour of the Willa Cather Childhood Home. About the Willa Cather Childhood Home Opened in 1967 and …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Visitors p. 1  Staff Activities p. 1  Publications p. 2  Gifts and Mail Bag p. 2  Future Plans p. 2  … Charter (Japan) by WCPM p. 1  Don Connors teaches a new course offering at UCLA p. 1  Cather Interest in Nebraska and … Miriam Mountford  TITLE: Ten Years of Progress  Author: None listed p. 1 Museum and Archives p. 1  Image of Wick …
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