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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 Willa Cather Childhood Home is a national treasure, one of only … 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

Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie  "We come and go, but the land is … our prairie wonders with a full naturalist's kit.  Guided tours of the prairie are available by pre-arrangement and …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 09/10/2023

Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… Image Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation January 23, 2019 After a several … can uncover more about her life and work through site tours, exhibits, and research right here in Red Cloud.” The …
Posted: 01/18/2019
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Artist Tim Youd on Typing Willa Cather in Red Cloud

… winds—and a rare sweltering day while in the Childhood Home attic—as he has moved around to different Willa … Lark in Red Cloud? Two reasons: even though Thea Kronborg's home hometown of Moonstone is nominally in Colorado, much of … atypical width. Do you have a specific favorite author or place where you have typed a book? It's a tough question, …
Posted: 04/20/2022
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Tim Youd: Retyping Willa Cather

… be performing at Joslyn Art Museum and Willa Cather Archive during the months of April and May. During that time, … — Childhood Home parlor or attic: "The Song of the Lark" & "Stupid Faces," pp. 262-288 April 21 — Miner House : "Stupid Faces," …
Posted: 03/16/2022
Last Updated: 04/13/2022

Finding Aids

… 1880   Document TEX-250-391-053 Financial Agreements, Clark Cather and George P. Cather   1878-1882   Document … Cordially yours, Willa Cather Dust jacket very good   The Song of the Lark BK-50-308 Willa Cather 1915 1st printing … 1st trade ed. association copy Mary Virginia Cather The Song of the Lark BK-50-325 Willa Cather 1915 association …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Group and Motorcoach Tours

… "foremost citizen" and author of  O Pioneers! ,  My Ántonia  and  One of Ours. Image Historic Site Tour … Farmstead, the famed setting at the end of Willa Cather's  My Ántonia Shop at the National Willa Cather Center …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/29/2025

Historic Sites

… audience how important it was to restore and preserve these places. . . . and nothing happened.”  Mildred Bennett and a … dedicated to an American author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the … in detail in her 1915 novel The Song of the Lark. The home was acquired by the Willa Cather Foundation in 1960 and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Book Club Resources

… Book Club Resources The National Willa Cather Center can … special arrangements for a book club visit to Red Cloud.  O Pioneers! O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark My …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023

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