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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
… to you that I would rather go home to Red Cloud than to any of the beautiful cities in Europe where I used to love to … is called Moonstone for the town in Cather's novel The Song of the Lark . During Cather's time, this was the room of Willa's …
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Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud
… Image Image Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud A New Permanent Exhibit for the Farmers & … became acquainted with Lyra and Silas Garber during her childhood in Red Cloud and used them as prototypes for … in two of Cather's other writings: the short story "Two Friends," and the novel Lucy Gayheart . The bank is also the …
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Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up
… Image Rationing Poster, United State Office of War Information, 1943 Annotations from the … the characters on the cards were sometimes given names of friends or siblings, as though stories were being created or acted out based on the scenes. Image Willa Cather's Childhood Scrapbook. OBJ-4-RG2639.AM.00001 In a letter to …
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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
… 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 …
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