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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

… status as a literary pilgrimage destination for more than fifty years. Just six months after the house reopened on Willa … with a sloping ceiling, like my 'rose-bower' in our old first home. Do you remember?"   —Cather in a 1945 letter to …
Posted: 06/13/2024
Last Updated: 06/15/2024

Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… November of 2021, urged on by a recommendation of the Nebraska Arts Council, Betty exhibited forty mixed media … Walker Gallery in the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, Nebraska. Her exhibit The Ties That Bind is currently on … was a Cooper Foundation Award winning teacher, the 1993 Nebraska Teacher of the Year, and a Disney Award Teacher. …
Posted: 07/14/2023
Last Updated: 08/30/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Officers and Board of Governors p. 1  Aims p. 1  Progress Report and Building Fund News p. 1  Publications p. 2  … Programs p. 2  World Wide Interest in Cather p. 3  Annual Conference p. 4  Acknowledgements p. 4  … and Invitation to Participate p.37 Volume 55, No.3 Summer 2012 Issue Editors: Steven Trout Co- Editor: Hannah Bruner …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Ken Burns Announces Creation of National Willa Cather Center

… Image Ken Burns Announces Creation of National Willa Cather Center March 18, 2014 The Willa Cather Foundation has announced its plans to build the National …
Posted: 09/11/2014
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center

… TO CREATE NATIONAL WILLA CATHER CENTER Red Cloud, Nebraska—The Willa Cather Foundation announced today its … will be located in Cather’s childhood home of Red Cloud, Nebraska, will provide almost 20,000 square feet of space … grant offered by the Peter Kiewit Foundation of Omaha, Nebraska, the Willa Cather Foundation must raise $144,000 by …
Posted: 01/04/2015
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Cather Sesquicentennial

… also marked the 100th anniversary of her Pulitzer Prize for  One of Ours , as well as publication centenaries of  A … matching funds provided by the  Willa Cather Foundation’s  Campaign for the Future .  Book clubs and teachers around the country are …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 12/31/2024

Support

… uses the depot as a setting in many of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and … Pavelka Farmstead to its period of significance. Readers of My Ántonia will recall the farmstead and the fruit cave from …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

My Ántonia: The Story of a Great American Novel

… Image Willa Cather Free Event at the Joslyn! Special Events Saturday, … 1967) Willa Cather’s My Ántonia , on view in Hawks Pavilion Gallery H8, and plan to attend a variety of special programs … Services; and the rehabilitation of the Willa Cather Childhood Home, a National Historic Landmark through a “Save …
Posted: 01/09/2025
Last Updated: 01/09/2025

Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!

… family and friends. She once wrote, "I always return to Nebraska." You can, too—in any season or time of year, …
Posted: 11/13/2024
Last Updated: 11/17/2024

Historic Sites

… Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront of of … a diverse schedule that includes theater, music, lectures, gallery exhibits, and much more. The Opera House was donated …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

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