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National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather … buildings and sites devoted to any American author. Your visit to the Center comes with the unique experience of an …
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Finding Aids

… Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska.  Subjects: short stories Cather genealogy Willa Cather personal effects … in the collection include notes from oral histories collected by Bennett and John March, transcripts of Cather … regarding book publishing Galleys of Collected Short Fiction Box 24—Bennett Notes and Typescripts Journey into …
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Willa Cather Biography

… House , and  Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny enclave of French culture that was Quebec City at the … of a more penetrating sense of human life and human destiny. Willa Cather read and thought a great deal during …
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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 …
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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

… early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small group of Red Cloud citizens, interested individuals, … Cather, great woman, great literary artist, who once was one of ours and now belongs to the great world and to time, … Sites and the collection became known as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection. The Foundation later assumed …
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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

… backgrounds, such as prairie botany and gardening skills, photography and graphic design, and you have worked as a … you remember that we were first called the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, and so a great many of Red Cloud’s oldest … keep things—her fan mail is a great example—but living in small New York spaces, keeping must have been hard. I think …
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Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… they have been wonderful additions to our team. Both are students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Maggie—the … in the field, I want to obtain a master’s degree in international studies somewhere new to me in the world. As … I want to work for the Department of State in the Bureau of International and Cultural affairs, with international …
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