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Echoes of the Archbishop

… Image Willa Cather at Mesa Verde Image Willa Cather's circa 1924 map of … Lewis’s Tall Tales of the Southwest,” by David Harrell. In Vol. 33 of the Willa Cather Newsletter & Review. pp. 4-8.  …
Posted: 08/29/2025
Last Updated: 04/03/2026

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Fisher New York Herald Tribune 1933 Clipping TX-50-1000-054 Review of  April Twilights Pittsburg Gazette 1903 Clipping …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… . . . But our great National feast day was originated by a private individual, and a woman at that. Above all her other … in Red Cloud. What a happy time that was for me! I shall always think of the old house just as it was then—exactly as … personal artifacts or dig into Red Cloud history in a new way!     …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

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

… for more than twenty-five years, and its third flood was lost to fire in 1961. Basement excavation and underpinning … that was completed in 2020 supported the return of the lost third floor. After pandemic-related delays, … and Mrs. Forrester in Willa Cather’s 1923 novel A Lost Lady . Silas was a founder of Red Cloud and a two term …
Posted: 04/09/2025
Last Updated: 04/09/2025

Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory

… Image Artist Karen Thurlow Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory Local Artist Creates "Webster County Memories" November 27, 2024 … priced. Art purchases from the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery benefit the artist and help support our mission to …
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

… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in  Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Collections Policies

… the Willa Cather Spring Conference and the Willa Cather International Seminar. Advance notice of your visit is requested. Access …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/02/2024

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 Director, National Willa Cather Center The Amos Fortune Forum • FREE …
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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