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National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather Center offers the opportunity to fully explore the … Take in a performance or exhibit at the Red Cloud Opera House Hike, stargaze, or watch the sunrise and sunset …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/14/2026

Finding Aids

… Wedding Anniversary from Willa Cather December 1923   My Ántonia BK-50-306 Willa Cather  1918 1st printing Elsie … of "Spanish Johnny" and "The Swedish Monther" pasted in My Ántonia BK-50-320 Willa Cather` 1918 association copy "To …  Toho University Goichi Fukui 1979 Article Tx-50-4000-F32 "Remembering Willa Cather" in  Woman's Press Lorna R. R. …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Willa Cather Biography

… from and references to Cather’s own letters. Thus without question, the complex brilliance Skaggs saw in Cather during … more than that, of herself as a person. The character in question is the book's antagonist, Clement Sebastian, who … help secret Nancy, the enslaved girl, away from slavery to freedom in Canada. It concludes in a way reminiscent of …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… company, Cather was unhappy with the experience. In 1944, she turned down another such honor. "I certainly … in response to a request for a photo to accompany  The Song of the Lark,  Cather writes to Houghton Mifflin's Alverda Van …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023

Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… Annotations from the Archives: The Library July 11, 2023 Creating a culture of … Red Cloud did not have a public library until 1917. Though literary clubs were popular in the area, most people relied …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/11/2023

Organization History

… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group … after Cather’s death, Bennett became fascinated by people, events, and historic sites in and around Red Cloud and … work; the  St. Juliana Catholic Church , of the novel  My Ántonia  the  Grace Episcopal Church , which houses a …
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

… 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 …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 08/17/2021

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