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Experience America’s Literary Legacy

… Carrie, when I confide to you that I would rather go home to Red Cloud than to any of the beautiful cities in … Red Cloud, Nebraska is not just a destination. It’s a place where literature and culture merge with the pleasures … but tranquil journeys. Spend a Night in the Cather Second Home Guest House Quiet, Cozy, Just like Home Whether you are …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 12/01/2025

Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… book one 75-minute tour to visit the Willa Cather Childhood Home, Burlington Depot, and J.L. Miner House while viewing … archival collections connected to mourning practices, workplace injuries, and even Cather's own personal interest in … devices. The Final Stop, a post-tour reception, will take place at the National Willa Cather Center from 7:15 - 9:15 …
Posted: 08/18/2025
Last Updated: 10/14/2025

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 … has become known as one of America’s canonical authors. The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings … On December 7, Cather’s 150th birthday will be fêted with guided holiday tours—including of the Childhood Home—and a …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong

… who joined filmmaker Alexander Payne for a weekend of events at Omaha's Film Streams, enjoyed tours of the Cather …
Posted: 08/29/2019
Last Updated: 03/08/2024

Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather

… Image Presented in partnership with the Ames Writers Collective and Ames Public Library Special Events Wednesday, Feb 28, 2024 | 7 - 8pm Ames Public Library … and the critically acclaimed novels  One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . In …
Posted: 01/04/2024
Last Updated: 02/05/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but … other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday

… Governors at the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska!  When people now speak of the leading American …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/26/2023

Willa Cather Timeline

… her paternal grandparents, William and Caroline Cather. The house, called Willow Shade, is located in an area near Back … brother Roscoe Cather is born. 1879  — Railroad begins operating in Red Cloud. 1880  — Willa Cather’s second oldest … the Harling family of  My Antonia . 1885  — The Red Cloud Opera House is built on the second floor above the town’s …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America

… and the critically acclaimed novels  One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . This …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2023

Press Room

… in Cather's work—in particular  O Pioneers!  (1913),  The Song of the Lark  (1915),  My Ántonia  (1918),  One of Ours  (1922),  A …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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