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Echoes of the Archbishop

… was duplicated by a cloud mesa, like a reflection..."  — Death Comes for the Archbishop We hope you'll join us in Santa Fe, New Mexico, …
Posted: 08/29/2025
Last Updated: 09/15/2026

Collections Access & Policies

… using NWCC materials; Inventories, finding aids, relevant files, and the assistance of a staff member or trained … will be made by staff according to our fee schedule; Any files made available via digital means (Dropbox, etc.) will …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/28/2026

Finding Aids

… Access Restrictions:  The record group is open to research. Cite as: [item #], Betty Kort Collection. Willa …  The material is in English. Access and Use:  Open to research. Digital copy and transcription are available online. … Access Restrictions:  The record group is open to research. Cite as: [item #], Blanche Cather Ray Collection. …
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

… 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

… My dad was a farmer who rented land.  We lived in whatever house was provided with the farmland, sometimes not the best … and affordably priced. Art purchases from the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery benefit the artist and help support our mission to bring quality arts programming and events to rural Nebraska.  …
Posted: 11/27/2024
Last Updated: 11/27/2024

Historic Sites

… to an American author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the Cather family … from the ages of ten to sixteen. The house is described in detail in the short stories “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best … a diverse schedule that includes theater, music, lectures, gallery exhibits, and much more. The Opera House was donated …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… of the leading figures of American literary Modernism has only increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa … the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith …
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 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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