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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years  Cather's essay for the Nation still resonates September 5, … meditations, art and anthropology, reportage and polemic.” Cather wrote to her editor Alfred A. Knopf on August 25, … the importance of a place and its people—the traditions and prairie landscape of the Great Plains that Cather loved and …
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Visit

… Visit Visit the Museum No study of Cather is complete without a trip to Red Cloud. The National Willa Cather Center is a wonderful museum and archival collection … Hours & Directions Lodging Options Lodging Options Cather Prairie Cather Prairie Cather's Red Cloud Cather's Red Cloud …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones

… stays. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the … will highlight connections to Red Cloud’s history and Willa Cather’s life and writing. The project is a key priority for … enjoy the museum, the historic sites, the town, the Cather Prairie, and other scenic places Cather loved. In the first …
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Potter Block Ceremonial Groundbreaking

… was completed in 2020 prepared the historic building to support the return of a third floor that was lost to fire in … years. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the … enjoy the museum, the historic sites, the town, the Cather Prairie, and other scenic places Cather loved. In the first …
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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann

… it. If you are interested in the same "human stories" Willa Cather illuminated in her own work, you will enjoy this free … monarch groves of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled … Mad Women  (Dancing Girl Press, 2017),  Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide  (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and  The …
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My Ántonia

… Image Vintage cover of My Ántonia My Ántonia Book Club Resources In this symphonically … virtues Cather most admired in her country. We first meet Antonia Shimerda as the young daughter of a Bohemian …
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Music in Willa Cather's Writing

… along with the novel. In addition to serving to help readers better understand Cather and her world, the playlists are wonderful companions on your daily commute! Enjoy! The Song of the … herself as she is growing up in Moonstone, Colorado, a fictional community based on Cather’s hometown of Red Cloud, …
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Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns!

… as well as researching resources for the website and in the archives, including some book club resources and a finding … texts to create discussion questions and working in the archives and is fascinated by the “sheer influence the …
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Visions Seen in the Air

… contributing artists to contemplate the essence of Willa Cather’s home town and to convey, through any medium, that … sense of place and feeling of home that would later inspire Cather as she created her six Nebraska novels. Exhibiting …
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Press Room

… that follow for contact information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, and the work of the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Contact … D.C. Willa Cather (1873-1947) is an author of complex American stories, Cather wrote from a perspective and in a …
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