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Echoes of the Archbishop

… — Death Comes for the Archbishop We hope you'll join us in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a 3-day, 3-night excursion, … while learning about Cather’s time in New Mexico. We’ll discuss and share from Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop … to change rooms. For questions about the program, please contact director of education and engagement Rachel Olsen at …
Posted: 08/29/2025
Last Updated: 09/15/2026

Collections Access & Policies

… Aids or search for individual items in our Collection Gallery . Conducting Research Researchers are encouraged to …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/28/2026

Finding Aids

… available for download. Betty Kort Collection Date range:  1762-1973 Bulk dates:  1918-1943 Finding Aid created by Tracy … genealogy Burlington & Missouri River Railroad journals building records financial instruments Related Materials:   … materials Notes on WCPM museum displays, historic sites, tour scripts Loose clippings about Cather, WCPM, Red Cloud …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… sentiment, as spring is in the Old World." —Willa Cather,  "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle,"   published in The …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

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

… Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy April 9, 2025 RED CLOUD, NE—The National Willa Cather Center celebrated the long-awaited soft opening …
Posted: 04/09/2025
Last Updated: 04/09/2025

Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory

… but ,as a child, I was not aware of the hardships.  We always ate well thanks to big gardens, canning, and homegrown … do art when I grew up. I was able to take some lessons from private teachers and workshops. I studied art books and did … In the 1990s, I did a lot of mural work in businesses and private homes. This gave me the opportunity to paint BIG. I …
Posted: 11/27/2024
Last Updated: 11/27/2024

Historic Sites

… Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront of of the preservation movement, restoring and caring for … sites dedicated to an American author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old … in 1897, is the building Cather returned to when visiting friends and family in Red Cloud. In 2021-2022, the National …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen … her first book, April Twilights and Other Poems . Some,  A Lost Lady  in 1923, parts of  The Professor's House  in 1925, …
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

Virtual Author Series: Ladette Randolph

… with writer Ladette Randolph as she discusses her novel Private Way . Set in 2015, protagonist Vivi Marx winds up off the …
Posted: 11/15/2022
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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