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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 of materials … Cather Foundation Extent: Leather address book with lined pages and alphabetical tabs. Dimensions: 3 ⅛ wide x 5 ⅜ tall … “Poliomyelitis” “Not a Bit Chaste” “Book 1-6 typescript and contact sheets The World of Willa Cather reviews 1985 slide …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… Image Cather's Thanksgiving postcard to her niece, 1909 … Red Cloud was.” If you've ever thought of coming home (or visiting) Red Cloud over the holidays, Cather's dear old house is available for guest lodging . Historic but entirely unfussy, the Cather Second …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

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

… The Ribbon-Cutting in front of Hotel Garber on April 4 [see Gallery for full captions] Image Hotel Garber in its opening … visitors with access to a new permanent exhibit,  Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud . The exhibit chronicles …
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 … you to everyone at the National Willa Cather Center for allowing me to show my art in the town where I spent so much … 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

… Sinclair Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … This bond is borne of Cather's ability to create on her pages intimate portraits of characters understood in … to Cather's development as a writer—once she had made contact with McClure he published her stories ("The …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Collections Policies

… to the  fee schedule , and these are to be used for private study, scholarship, or research use and may not be … made; Copies may not be used “for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research” according to United … Copyright Law, Title 17; Reproduction by the NWCC in no way transfers either copyright or property rights, nor does …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/02/2024

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

… “Willa Cather as Creator: Breaking the Mold and Carving a Place in History” on Friday, August 11 at The Amos Fortune … discuss Cather’s ascent to success, from her rebellious nature as an adolescent to her prominence as a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Near Cather’s final resting place in Jaffrey, Alston and Olson will discuss their …
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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