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Childhood Home Tour

… Image Image Image Childhood Home Tour Understand Cather's Youth The Willa Cather Childhood Home is a short walk or drive from the National …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/22/2025

Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home | April 2024 Image Willa Cather … follows. Banquet & Readers Theater Tickets To learn more about the recent restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood … Arts Council. His work can be found in  Rattle, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner , and in hundreds of other …
Posted: 05/13/2024
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

Willa Cather Childhood Home

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home Willa Cather Childhood Home A National Historic … of the house that ended when the home opened for tours in 1967. The house was declared a National Historic …
Posted: 07/16/2014
Last Updated: 08/22/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… (1915): “The ceiling was so low that a grown person could reach it with the palm of the hand, and it sloped down on …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway Set to Reopen in December of 2023 … National Willa Cather Center and participate in guided town tours of six additional historic properties related to …
Posted: 09/26/2022
Last Updated: 11/29/2023

Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration July 21, 2022 The … National Willa Cather Center and participate in guided town tours of six additional historic properties related to …
Posted: 07/21/2022
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Home for the Holidays

… Image Cather Family Christmas Decorations A Cather Christmas Tour Special Events Tuesday, Nov 25, 2025 | 3 - 4pm Tuesday, … Almost every one I meet has a bundle and is hurrying home to hide it."  –Willa Cather, Nebraska State Journal, … love of Christmas, from the decorations popular during her childhood to the unique holiday cards she sent to loved ones …
Posted: 11/07/2025
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

One-Day Bus Tour to the National Willa Cather Center

… event is SOLD OUT! Join us for a full day in Red Cloud, home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather! On this … will experience the “Divide” as described in O Pioneers! , tour the recently restored Willa Cather Childhood Home, and visit other settings from her acclaimed …
Posted: 03/05/2024
Last Updated: 09/05/2025

Guided Seven Building Town Tour

… household items throughout the home. Burlington Depot 437 W. Welsch Street Cather uses the depot in many of her works, such as in an early scene in  My Ántonia . The Depot also figures prominently in “The …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 06/11/2025

Guided Seasonal Tour

… Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts … drawn readers into this classic novel for more than 100 years.   As part of our NEA Big Read programming, guests are … W. 3rd Street This is the site where Anna Sadilek Pavelka’s first child was baptized and where Anna was married. This …
Posted: 08/23/2024
Last Updated: 01/03/2025

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