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Collections Access & Policies

Collections Access & Policies The National Willa Cather Center houses the earliest Willa Cather museum collections and archives, and we continue to make new collection materials available to researchers. To access our collections, browse our Finding Aids …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/28/2026

Echoes of the Archbishop

… Center on the morning of November 10th before making our way to Santa Fe. If you can get to Acoma, we've got the rest … their website. If you are registered for a shared or private room and plan to arrive early or leave late and want … registration options. Rates shown are per person.   Private Room: $1999 Shared Room: $1299 For the optional …
Posted: 08/29/2025
Last Updated: 04/03/2026

Finding Aids

… William Boone, nd) Box 47 Alicia Blue materials     Brockway Paper Collection Date range:  1880–1987 Bulk dates: … Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great 1880 Wm. Cather Jr. Private Library No. 71 Akins, Zoë Interpretations: A Book of … M. Jack and Jill: A Village Story 1887 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 25 Alcott, Louisa M. Jo's Boys: And How …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… niece, 1909 Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud November 7, 2025 "There we have short, bitter … of beauty and sentiment, as spring is in the Old World." —Willa Cather,  "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle,"   … Red Cloud was.” If you've ever thought of coming home (or visiting) Red Cloud over the holidays, Cather's dear old …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… a general manager, sales and event manager, housekeeping staff, and a head chef. The hotel restaurant will include … made possible by gifts from many generous individuals and foundations. These private gifts helped leverage grant … Nebraska Passport program.  MAKE A DONATION Learn more about the Hotel Garber project —All gallery images, below, …
Posted: 04/09/2025
Last Updated: 04/09/2025

Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory

… from photographs—or both? I do both. Sometimes a photo is involved but I may add some remembered things which could be … or stenciling with no end in mind. Something usually will get my imagination going and in the end it actually is a … nothing was told to me and my imagination put the story together. Hopefully I tell the story in the way the painting …
Posted: 11/27/2024
Last Updated: 11/27/2024

Historic Sites

… tours for those with mobility limitations. “When she went away from it for good, she would leave something that she … church in 1922. Today, Grace Episcopal Church is used for private services. A homily is delivered here annually in … Catholic Church was dedicated in 1907, St. Juliana became a private residence until it was donated to the National Willa …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… in American fiction—with Melville, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Ellison, Bellow, Morrison.” Yes, though Cather deserves to precede Hemingway on this list. Concluding her fine study of Willa … Cather. On April 24, 1947, Cather died from cancer. A private funeral was held in New York, and a memorial service …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather as Creator: Breaking the Mold and Carving a Place in History

… Fortune Forum Image Littleton Alston with his statue of Willa Cather at the U.S. Capitol Image Ashley Olson, Executive … as a mature artist in the prime of her career. His bronze sculpture of Cather was installed in the U.S. Capitol on …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 08/03/2023

Willa Cather and Her Illustrators

… a path for artists to achieve nationwide recognition, in a way that gallery exhibition and private collection could not. Cather and the artists who … art, and that it is worth caring about, than in any other way.” This exhibit explores eight of Cather’s illustrators, …
Posted: 06/02/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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