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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive sixteen-month restoration, … has become known as one of America’s canonical authors. The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

National Willa Cather Center is Open: Plan Your Visit!

… Image National Willa Cather Center is Open: Plan Your Visit! June 3, 2017 The … archive, research center, classroom,  bookstore, art gallery, and performing arts center. The Center occupies Red … Opera House Hike and picnic at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie   Spend a relaxing evening at the Cather Second Home …
Posted: 06/13/2017
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… to have cared for these important properties for the last forty years. The Willa Cather Foundation is an excellent … is especially beloved because of Cather’s preserved bedroom under the eaves where she did her first writing and where …
Posted: 01/18/2019
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather Center offers the opportunity to fully explore …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/14/2026

Guided Willa Cather Tours

… Tours The National Willa Cather Center and many of our historic sites are open for guided tours year-round. Four of the … Please check our hours of operation when planning your visit, and be sure to scroll through the full list of tour …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/29/2025

Support the Willa Cather Foundation

… Cather Memorial Prairie Conferences & Seminars Preserving Historic Sites & Collections With your support we maintain ten … rare books, and photographs. Historic Sites Schedule a Visit Collections & Archives Access to the Arts Your gifts …
Posted: 01/17/2023
Last Updated: 10/23/2025

One-Day Bus Tour to the National Willa Cather Center

… tour the recently restored Willa Cather Childhood Home, and visit other settings from her acclaimed novel My Ántonia . … transportation, lunch and dinner, guided tours of historic sites, access to permanent exhibits, and viewing of special …
Posted: 03/05/2024
Last Updated: 09/05/2025

Historic Sites

… restored exterior finishes, but will also offer accessible tours for those with mobility limitations. “When she went … priest who served this church came by train from a nearby town. A special train whistle alerted parishioners that Mass … store for decades. “When I go about among little Nebraska towns . . . the thing I miss most is the opera house.” …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather!

… Image Image 10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather! April 26, 2023 Experience the prairie world of … [Catch a viewing party, or watch live on C-SPAN when her sculpture by Omaha sculptor Littleton Alston is installed in …
Posted: 04/18/2023
Last Updated: 05/02/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 1.2  Fall 1957  Editor: Miriam Mountford  Staff Activities p. 1  … Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip … for Fourth National Seminar to be held in the Southwest in 1990 p. 9  Cather interest in Russia: letter to Mildred …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

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