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… Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials related to the life and works of … Prize-winning author Willa Cather. Our museum and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, historic photographs, art and decorative arts, …
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Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Christmas Traditions
… December 10, 2025 In Webster County during Willa Cather’s childhood, Christmas traditions differed from our modern representations of Victorian Christmas celebrations and decorations. While … to bring small presents to put on the tree for their friends and families. Advertisements in the local papers …
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… the arrival of traveling productions such as The Bohemian Girl and The Mikado. As Cather herself put it, “Only real …
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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House
… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not exaggerating, Carrie, when I … a shared half bathroom. Named after the Nebraska town in O Pioneers! , the room is above the former kitchen with its …
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Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud
… Willa Cather Center today, has worked to preserve the historic fabric of the town that Willa Cather immortalized … on the exhibit credit panel. * 11x17 print of a painting of historic Red Cloud. Signed copy of Lyra and Silas Garber: A … Bank is as richly and fully explored as local history sites as it is as a Willa Cather historic site. The …
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Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up
… Image Rationing Poster, United State Office of War Information, 1943 … Cather wrote to her family, “The new Swedish edition of “O Pioneers” is one of the handsomest books I have ever seen. I … (December 6, 1919). Image 1919 Swedish translation of O Pioneers! Later on, perhaps when no longer useful for …
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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!
… on several guided tours, including our new My Ántonia tour. Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season! Explore • Learn • Shop • …
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"Books Old and New"
… by Willa Cather or about Willa Cather—and a wide selection of other books, too. Image Some children's books in the Willa Cather Childhood Home Image Willa Cather in Pittsburgh "Books Old … the earth over again, we turn instinctively to our very old friends, those that have been tested and tried." Books Old …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… From an early age, she established her “library,” with her books labeled and sometimes numbered in the back room of her … the many facets of Cather’s interactions with both her books and her readers, we hope attendees will be inspired to … Imagination In her own time as in ours, Willa Cather’s books created vibrant and varied communities of readers. …
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Historic Sites
… author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the Cather family moved in. … 1965. Efforts to save the depot were extensive, requiring relocation and a full restoration—the result of the railroad's … Carrie, Mary, and Irene Miner. The Miners inspired the Harling family of My Ántonia . Cather dedicated My Ántonia …
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