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New NET Production 'Yours, Willa Cather' Spans, Radio, TV, & Digital
… Image New NET Production 'Yours, Willa Cather' Spans, Radio, TV, & Digital September 9, 2015 … many scholars believed that Cather burned most of her letters before her death. Not so. In the new NET Television … 6, 13, 20 and 27) on NET Radio. Based on the 2013 book The Selected Letters of Willa Cather , co-edited by University …
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Serena's Album
… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather … theorizes that Serena came to Red Cloud to continue her studies with J. F. Curran, the very popular Superior High … photographer, of German parentage. He appears in an 1899 volume entitled Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive …
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Finding Aids
… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the … collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, historic … finding aids are available for the collections below. A PDF file is available for download. Betty Kort Collection Date …
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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift
… Gift Inspired by Decades of Rich Cather Experiences October 15, 2025 Willa Cather may not have been Richard … kind of creativity is fascinating and very rare. And she does this book after book after book,” Harris said. Harris, … Those experiences are certainly one of the many positive things in my life,” Harris said. Harris’s latest interest …
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Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Photographers
… family members, and townspeople who shared photographs of Willa Cather and the early days of Webster County. Red … crowded. Fred Bradbrook arrived in 1883, and his prolific work in Red Cloud constitutes some of our most important … Archivist Tracy Sanford Tucker would be happy to talk with you about your collection and help determine the …
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Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts
… January 6, 2025, marks another important centenary in Willa Cather's career: the opening of the feature film adaptation … September 13, 1923 ). The local Sunday School Association, later in September 1923, hosted a lecture called "The Menace … books even reach the public. Mrs. Keating reads 3 hundred novels a year! . . . 'Someone asked me today, why I bought …
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Annotations from the Archives: October is American Archives Month
… by mailed questionnaire. Beginning her research into Willa Cather's life soon after Cather's death, Bennett realized … an intern at the National Willa Cather Center sixty years later, she discovered within those cards a reference to a … are a tremendous resource for our understanding of her novels. In addition to the hundreds of letters that we …
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Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal
… 2022 The archives are built upon the art and the science of memory. The processes used in cataloging, arranging, and … the creators and curators of the collection, and their networks of colleagues and influences, too. Think of a … some conversation with her. Would it be possible for me to talk with you sometime when you are out in this part of the …
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Annotations from the Archive: Association Copies
… Image Willa Cather's name inside Pilgrim's Progress Annotations from the … Family Library, which will be discussed at length in a later Annotations , contains a number of books personally … to a Cather book’s content Because six of Cather's twelve novels and many short stories utilized people, places, and …
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Alexander's Bridge
… Bridge Book Club Resources Alexander’s Bridge (1912) is Cather’s first novel about an ambitious engineer, Bartley … integrity and the life choices he has made. Though Cather later asked for her second novel, O Pioneers! to be … writing. Told from a more Eurocentric view than her later novels, this is Cather’s first attempt at long-form fiction …
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