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Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… drive between two major Federal Interstates while at the crossroads of two state highways (one a designated scenic … and education as a child, restored and open today with events and performances throughout the year. Our Special …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/20/2026

Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

Image This event is SOLD OUT! Special Events Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 | 6 - 7:15pm Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 | 6:30 - 7:45pm Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 | 7 - 8:15pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States "The type …
Posted: 08/18/2025
Last Updated: 10/14/2025

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour … with Cather's life and work, conserve the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, care for priceless collections, and allow …
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 … and shared that he was currently reading Cather's  The Song of the Lark and had particularly enjoyed  Death Comes for the …
Posted: 08/29/2019
Last Updated: 03/08/2024

Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather

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

Willa Cather Biography

… in Nebraska, Quebec City (with a pre-trip to Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick), Virginia, Vermont, France (Paris and … borne of Cather's ability to create on her pages intimate portraits of characters understood in relation to their … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday

… Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Poudre Libraries — … her prairie-plains novels ( O Pioneers!  [1913],  The Song of the Lark  [1915], and especially  My Ántonia  [1918]) had …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/26/2023

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four … in part on events in the lives of Silas Garber and his wife Lyra Garber, receives serial publication in  Century  at …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America

… Space, New York City • In Person & Livestreamed Special Events Wednesday, Sep 27, 2023 | 7 - 8:30pm Peter Jay Sharp … acclaimed novels  One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . This special evening of short …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2023

Press Room

… With Willa Cather Center for International Women's Day ," Alexandra Polkinghorn,  Women's Wear Daily , March 8, 2022 " …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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