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Emily Caroline Cather's Trunk

… Burdens and Miners in  My Ántonia , ​and Dr. Archie in  The Song of the Lark . Cather writes of the differences between immigrants … Nebraska, in 1877. Image Emily Ann Caroline Cather PHO-4-W689-132. WCPM Collection. Willa Cather Foundation …
Posted: 08/26/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Conservation of Willa Cather's Attic Bedroom Wallpaper

… Willa Cather's Attic Bedroom Wallpaper, " History Nebraska Blog, May 9, 2019 " History Nebraska Transfers Willa Cather … Site to the Willa Cather Foundation ," History Nebraska Blog, January 23, 2019 " Flowers in the Attic ," History Nebraska Blog, June 19, 2019 " Cather Wallpaper Preservation Project, …
Posted: 07/02/2019
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

Childhood Home Tour

… served as the Cather residence for 20 years beginning in 1884, when Charles Cather moved his family into town from their … the vivid descriptions of the house in works like The Song of the Lark , "Old Mrs. Harris," and "The Best Years." "In this …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/22/2025

Guided Seven Building Town Tour

… Guided Seven Building Town Tour Driving Tour Guests should have their own … household items throughout the home. Burlington Depot 437 W. Welsch Street Cather uses the depot in many of her …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 06/11/2025

Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts

… the first of her works to be made into a movie, and a 1934 film of the same name was to be the last in Cather's … you can get a very high price for the film rights of "The Song of the Lark" I'll consent to the sale," she wrote to her editor …
Posted: 01/06/2025
Last Updated: 01/21/2025

Willa Cather Childhood Home

… contains many family artifacts including furniture, canned goods, prints and artwork, and family photographs and books. …
Posted: 07/16/2014
Last Updated: 08/22/2024

Guided Three Building Downtown Tour

… Image Guided Three Building Downtown Tour Driving or Walking Tour This guided tour option … decorated with original wallpaper. Farmers & Merchants Bank 338 N Webster Street Making a Place: A Long History of Red …
Posted: 05/21/2024
Last Updated: 07/01/2024

Hommage: Willa Cather

… Image Song of the Lark, Selfsearch | Maria Gurikhina | Print Available $110 Art Gallery Tuesday, May 21 - Saturday, Aug 10, 2024 | All day In 2023, the Associació Internacional Duana de … The authors chosen in 2023 were: Willa Cather (1873–1947) Federico Garcia Lorca (1889–1936) Wislawa Szymborska …
Posted: 03/19/2024
Last Updated: 05/30/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood … Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop , Willa Cather … is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. Events took place across the country throughout 2023-2024 to …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Historic Sites

… 1965. Efforts to save the depot were extensive, requiring relocation and a full restoration—the result of the railroad's … building from destruction, it was moved from its original location south of the railroad tracks to its present site. … that Mass was about to begin. Anna Sadilek and John Pavelka, the couple who inspired characters in both  My …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

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