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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… her formative years—six historic properties and supporting collections will be transferred to the Willa Cather … Foundation and will help ensure that the newly completed National Willa Cather Center will remain a primary location to learn about and research one of America's most iconic …
Posted: 01/18/2019
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

International Cather Seminar

… International Cather Seminar The International Cather Seminar is held biennially in locations … around the country—and the world!—that were important to Willa Cather. Colleagues from around the globe, at all …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 06/23/2025

Museum Collections Associate Wanted!

… Museum Collections Associate Wanted! December 5, 2022 Job Title: … & Curation Status: Full-Time, Non-exempt Who we are: The National Willa Cather Center exists to promote and encourage … organizational skills. Ability to follow instructions and learn proper methods of preservation procedures. Shows …
Posted: 12/05/2022
Last Updated: 12/28/2022

Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker

… Image Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker October … move to a digital collections management system, update our policies and procedures, and begin rehousing some collection … the collections? What does a typical item take in terms of time from photographing, IDing, typing, and …
Posted: 10/24/2022
Last Updated: 11/22/2022

Featured Speakers and Performers

… Featured Speakers and Performers 71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference Rebecca Romney Featured Speaker Rebecca Romney is …
Posted: 05/04/2026
Last Updated: 05/18/2026

Membership

… members enjoy many benefits including, a free guided tour of the  Cather historic sites , subscription to the  … and tickets to select events, lodging at the  Cather Second Home,  as well as invitations to special events. … Your Membership Supports Preservation of Willa Cather's Childhood Home and eleven Cather historic sites Conferences …
Posted: 01/17/2023
Last Updated: 04/27/2026

Support

… Shop Shop Reinterpreting the Burlington Depot Support Our Newest Exhibit The Burlington Depot has undergone … uses the depot as a setting in many of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and an … will recall the farmstead and the fruit cave from from the final scenes of the novel. Anna Sadilek Pavelka was the …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 03/31/2026

Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… Through the Pages of American Literature Discover Willa Cather and Red Cloud "I'm not exaggerating, Carrie, when I … merge with the pleasures of a quiet country town and its prairie surroundings. To visit  Red Cloud  is to experience … the very buildings and landscapes that Willa Cather wrote about or lived in — whether it is her childhood bedroom and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/20/2026

Group and Motorcoach Tours

… Willa Cather Center is located in the quiet rural town of Red Cloud, Nebraska—childhood home of writer Willa Cather. … please call 402-746-2653. What Your Group Will Experience Visit the fully-restored  Willa Cather Childhood home and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/29/2025

Visit

… Visit Visit the Museum No study of Cather is complete without a trip to Red Cloud. The National Willa Cather Center is an award-winning …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/23/2025

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