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Finding Aids

… Fisher New York Herald Tribune 1933 Clipping TX-50-1000-054 Review of  April Twilights Pittsburg Gazette 1903 Clipping … Related Materials: The NWCC also holds a number of bound volumes of McClure’s Magazine , Ladies Home Journal , and … Willa Cather stamp, Cather 100th Birthday newspaper, WCPM newsletter (1987), and letters and documents surrounding …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather … museum, archive, research center, classroom, bookstore, art gallery, and performing arts center. The Center occupies Red … watch the sunrise and sunset at the  Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Explore scenic country roads or take a Cather  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2025

Willa Cather Biography

… is one of the most important American novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. Seen as a regional … of American literary Modernism has only increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition … Sebastian in  Lucy Gayheart , Cather was herself "nearing fifty" (78) and after her own struggle with  One of Ours …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… part of the United States. . . . From this experience I learned a lesson. The better the advertising, the worse it … are open to research. To request an appointment or learn more, please contact archivist Tracy Tucker at …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023

Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… Red Cloud did not have a public library until 1917. Though literary clubs were popular in the area, most people relied … of the Auld Library  and the purchase of books. Charles Cather was elected the first president of the library board. … what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is significant; …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/11/2023

Organization History

… work; the  St. Juliana Catholic Church , of the novel  My Ántonia  the  Grace Episcopal Church , which houses a pair of … operation of the Willa Cather State Historic Sites in 1994 through a contractual arrangement with History Nebraska. …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

Virtual Author Series: Dr. Rebecca Faber

… Opera House Thursday, Nov 4, 2021 | 7pm We are excited to welcome Dr. Rebecca Faber to talk about her book, One Small Photo , a collection of poetry and one short story that was written to raise awareness about veterans' mental health. Dr. Faber will also share …
Posted: 07/09/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker

… 30, 2022 Although Tracy Tucker has been with the Willa Cather Foundation for a decade as Director of Education, she … diverse interests, talents, and work backgrounds, such as prairie botany and gardening skills, photography and graphic … from? Overwhelmingly, it’s come from two major sources: Cather family members and local Red Cloudians. Our …
Posted: 10/24/2022
Last Updated: 11/22/2022

Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… outreach project, as well as on the front lines of tour and visitor engagement in our bookstore. Thara is also … walking with my grandparents). They lived in the small town of West Point, so I was already familiar with small towns before I came to Red Cloud. My Mom had left to go back …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 08/17/2021

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