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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

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska.  Subjects: short stories Cather genealogy Willa Cather personal effects … Library No. 71 Akins, Zoë Interpretations: A Book of First Poems 1912 n/a Alcott, Louisa M. Jack and Jill: A Village …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost … a succession of other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House …
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

… what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is significant; … collections contain a number of photos of her reading to children, and of other family members reading. It is clear … the family's involvement with the Auld Library, and from Willa's own writing, just how much the Cather family valued …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/11/2023

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 …
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

… October 30, 2022 Although Tracy Tucker has been with the Willa Cather Foundation for a decade as Director of … & Curation as part of an internal restructuring. Learn more about Tracy and her new role—and what this means … I don’t think she would want “her things” on display or her biography used to parse her writing. But I do recognize that …
Posted: 10/24/2022
Last Updated: 11/22/2022

Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… and helping other employees with various tasks like mail ordering, stocking books, and even watering flowers.  …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 08/17/2021

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