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National Willa Cather Center

… roads on a Cather "Country Tour" of outlying properties and settings Spend a relaxing evening at the Cather Second Home … to Willa Cather, her literature, and the community and settings that inspired many of her memorable works. Fresh …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … 1st printing Elsie Margaret Cather from W.S.C. October fourth 1918 Cather was in Red Cloud when she presented this …
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Willa Cather Biography

… country—Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, among many other locations. Beginning in the 1980s, International Willa Cather Seminars have been held in locations important to Cather and to her works. The most …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings August 1, 2023 As has been … the most pertinent portion of the review or article. Our collections include hundreds of such clippings, some … part of the United States. . . . From this experience I learned a lesson. The better the advertising, the worse it …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… local organizations or simply had to purchase their own small selection of reading materials. In 1913, the new Red Cloud YMCA created a library in one of its rooms, with material donated by the P.E.O. club, … It's unclear what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is …
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Organization History

… Cather  is still widely used by scholars as a valuable source work for Cather’s early years. In the early 1950s, … work; the  St. Juliana Catholic Church , of the novel  My Ántonia  the  Grace Episcopal Church , which houses a pair … and the Pavelka Farmstead, the rural setting for the final scenes in  My Ántonia . A pivotal event was the 1962 …
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Virtual Author Series: Dr. Rebecca Faber

… to welcome Dr. Rebecca Faber to talk about her book, One Small Photo , a collection of poetry and one short story that was …
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Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker

… NWCC in 2012, my role as Education Director also included management of the archives and collections. However, with … donors, and we soon needed to move to a digital collections management system, update our policies and procedures, and … of the Archives a finite project…and how do you manage to do it all around everything else? Well, …
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Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… fixing any errors. Currently, I’m reviewing the archive’s photo collection and then digitizing them for future use. … are, unfortunately, missing. But there are some really good ones (with Beauty and the Beast costumes and elephants … I wasn’t walking with my grandparents). They lived in the small town of West Point, so I was already familiar with …
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