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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House
… a shared half bathroom. Named after the Nebraska town in O Pioneers! , the room is above the former kitchen with its …
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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder
… Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 | 7 - 8:15pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States "The type of writer we have been talking about has a brain like Limbo, full of ghosts, for which he … characters and evocative descriptions of the Nebraska prairie they inhabit. Critics characterize her work as …
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Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead
… for Ántonia Shimerda, arguably Willa Cather's most famous character and the namesake for her 1918 novel. The floor … was restored to its period of significance in 2021. The foundation was stabilized, lighting and mechanical systems … cellar, which is an important symbol in Cather’s work. More About the Project Image Key themes of the exhibit will …
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Conservation of Willa Cather's Attic Bedroom Wallpaper
… at the Willa Cather Childhood Home. Long after Cather left Red Cloud and became a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, she still … by the Willa Cather Foundation in 1960. It can be visited by guided tour from the National Willa Cather …
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Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home
… Miner grew up as the third generation in the J.L. Miner House, or the Harling House in My Ántonia . He was the … three, her father and aunt Kay Jones Smith shared stories about summers in Nebraska at the J.L. Miner House. Jaydene’s … which is why she has decided to include the Willa Cather Foundation in her estate plan. “After seeing how the history …
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Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources
Image Teachers and students examine primary sources Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources September 9, 2025 The collections and archives at the National Willa Cather Center have always, since our founding, played a critical role in …
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Cather Legacy Society
… Cather Legacy Society A Planned Gift With Lasting Impact Image Mary Vaughan: Why She Joined … by the Immigrant Experience Abbie Loomis first discovered My Ántonia as a teenager and has been reading her mother's copy …
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School Field Trips
… or taking a deep dive into the world of My Ántonia or O Pioneers! , students and educators will gain new insights …
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Willa Cather Memorial Prairie
… native prairie, located five miles south of Red Cloud on Hwy. 281. We are working to return this land to its … must be made not only to preserve them, but to bring visitors to the prairie, to teach them the importance of …
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Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up
… Cather wrote to her family, “The new Swedish edition of “O Pioneers” is one of the handsomest books I have ever seen. I … (December 6, 1919). Image 1919 Swedish translation of O Pioneers! Later on, perhaps when no longer useful for …
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