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Exhibit Tour

… National Willa Cather Center. What are the most important events of Cather’s life? How did Red Cloud become the … journey from Virginia; the domestic spaces in The Song of the Lark , "Old Mrs. Harris," and 'The Best Years"  that were …
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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… Saturday, Oct 24, 2026 | 7 - 8:15pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … Online Now "The type of writer we have been talking about has a brain like Limbo, full of ghosts, for which he … characters and evocative descriptions of the Nebraska prairie they inhabit. Critics characterize her work as …
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Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… and education as a child, restored and open today with events and performances throughout the year. Our Special …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Cather house is vividly described in Cather's novel,  The Song of the Lark , and short stories, “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best … is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. Events took place across the country throughout 2023-2024 to …
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Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong

… Wong, of Showtime's hit series  Billions , made a low key visit to Red Cloud and the National Willa Cather Center last week. Wong and Giamatti, who joined … a native of Illinois, this visit marked her first Cather experience. Both actors live and work in Brooklyn, New York, …
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Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather

… us for an evening of readings to celebrate 150 years of Willa Cather, one of the most significant and treasured American … with the Ames Writers Collective and the National Willa Cather Center, readers will be reacquainted, and new …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a special issue of  Modern Fiction Studies  on … until early 1901, when she accepted a high school teaching position in Pittsburgh, later moving across the …
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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday

… Image Willa Cather, c. 1912 Image Talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, President, Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… her paternal grandparents, William and Caroline Cather. The house, called Willow Shade, is located in an area near Back … 1883 to 1884  — Willa Cather attends a one-room schoolhouse in the Catherton precinct of Webster County. She picks … and insurance downtown and rents a story-and-a-half frame house on 3rd and Cedar Streets. Built around 1879, the …
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Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America

… acclaimed novels  One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . This special evening of short … in her prose. With stellar short performances by  Patricia Clarkson  ( She Said ), mezzo-soprano Linda Collazo ,  Sonia …
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