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Willa Cather's Red Cloud
… is her childhood bedroom and its original wallpaper in The Song of the Lark or the Miner House that became the Harling home in My … of absolutely nothing in the virtual center of the lower 48-states. MORE ABOUT THE PRAIRIE LANDSCAPE Spend a Night in …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/05/2024
The Potter Family
… a camp fire. . . . With so many emigrants coming to a new country, it made the housing a very serious problem and as … settlement surrounded by dykes to hold back the waters of Lake Michigan. In 1860 he rode forty miles in a jolting … years. He was the oldest of the brothers who came to this country. It is possible there was one older than he who 'did …
Posted: 08/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/27/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… publish there; it serialized her first novel, Alexander's Bridge , in 1912. Once she had completed her second novel …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas Garber, former captain in the United … Register of Historic Places and open year-round for guided tours. Winter 1883 to 1884 — Willa Cather attends a one-room … need, sends $50 to Annie Sadilek Pavelka to be used for a gift. Annie uses the money to pay for taxes on her farm …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes
… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the … Another way to lose yourself in Cather's world is to take our guided Country Tour which highlights twenty … during National Pollinator Week , June 19-15 "I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 09/10/2023
National Willa Cather Center
… Image National Willa Cather Center Walk in Her Footsteps. Stay in Her Town. … six additional historic sites related to her life & writing Take in a performance or exhibit at the Red Cloud Opera …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather!
… Image Image 10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather! April 26, 2023 Experience the prairie … years of our famed writer—and several of her works are also celebrating centenaries. Here are 10 ways that you, too, can … 7. Read Willa Cather's novel, A Lost Lady is celebrating 100 years of publication, and one of several of Cather's …
Posted: 04/18/2023
Last Updated: 05/02/2023
Willa Cather Goes Back to School, Almost
… futures for the Red Cloud boys and girls. There is nothing for us to do now but to try to realize those … but my hurried departure will not leave me time to prepare any sort of paper to send you. I would be glad to write … Lincoln, that I saw comparatively little of my old friends. Just before I went away to school Miss King had married Mr. …
Posted: 08/27/2019
Last Updated: 05/02/2023
49 Minutes of Fame Artist Profile: Sarah Rowe
… in studio art from Webster University instead. “Art just gave me an energetic jolt,” Rowe says. “I thought, … With her background in theater, Rowe says she enjoys any work that contains an element of performance. "I love … of Indigenous artists who live and create on the unceded land of the Umónhon & Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (otherwise known as …
Posted: 12/10/2021
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… Red Cloud. What brought you here and how did you hear about us? We are big fans of Willa Cather. Having spent our … what motivated you to become members of the Willa Cather Foundation? The Center does an amazing job of telling … if the funds are there! What do you expect from your membership in the Willa Cather Foundation? We are looking …
Posted: 12/05/2019
Last Updated: 12/30/2019