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National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa … buildings and sites devoted to any American author. Your visit to the Center comes with the unique experience of an … appointment) Take in a performance or exhibit at the Red Cloud Opera House Hike, stargaze, or watch the sunrise …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/14/2026

Finding Aids

… ed. For  Edith Lewis from Willa Cather No dust jacket A Lost Lady BK-50-305 Willa Cather 1923 Limited 1st ed. J/20 For my … 1884 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 36 Buchan, John A Lost Lady of Old Years 1899 Willa Cather, Pittsburg Pa. …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Scholarly Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen in print) has established true texts … from and references to Cather’s own letters. Thus without question, the complex brilliance Skaggs saw in Cather during … Opera House , now restored and the offices and performance space of the National Willa Cather Center, was built in 1885 …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… interesting dualities. She was intensely engaged with her small hometown, even as she became a traveler of the world; … fine clothes, the fascinating company. The Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection contains even more evidence of … patrons would not like. During the sittings, Thérese Bonney photographed Cather and Bakst in the studio, a photo that …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023

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 …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/11/2023

Organization History

… by Silas Garber, prototype for Captain Forrester in  A Lost Lady  the  Burlington Depot , which appears throughout … guesthouse for Red Cloud visitors.  Image Former First Lady Laura Bush Visits the Cather Prairie The  National …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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 …
Posted: 07/09/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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

… Image Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker October 30, 2022 Although Tracy Tucker has been with the Willa Cather Foundation for a …
Posted: 10/24/2022
Last Updated: 11/22/2022

Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… in our archives. The Humanities Internship at the National Willa Cather Center is funded through a collaboration between the … of Red Cloud. For the past three years, I have been living in Lincoln while pursuing my bachelor’s degree at the …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 08/17/2021

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