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Willa Cather Timeline
… Also accompanying the family are Rachel Boak, the hired girl Marjorie (Margie) Anderson, and Willa’s cousins Bess … Isabelle. Getting ready to write a novel about Virginia ( Sapphira and the Slave Girl ), Cather revisits that her native state with …
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Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection
… Library from Glenda J. Pierce, member of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors, and Jeff Kirkpatrick; it will … open hours . This event if free of charge. Learn more about Willa Cather and Material Culture and artist Betty …
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Announcing the Inaugural Cohort in the Willa Cather Residency for Writers
… Cather’s 150th birthday. “We were delighted by the enormous response and outstanding applications,” said Ashley … senior editor at Harper’s Magazine and her book of essays about women writers, A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women … received fellowships from MacDowell and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Kirsten …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… Now Discussion #4: Death Comes for the Archbishop As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate … for the Archbishop The format of each session will be a talk by Taylor followed by questions via Zoom's chat feature. For those who will miss a session due to work or other commitments, the sessions will be recorded and …
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O Pioneers!
… Image © Tracy Sanford Tucker for the National Willa Cather Center A University of … Tickets UNL Opera presents Tyler Goodrich White’s O Pioneers! based on Willa Cather’s 1913 novel--her first …
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Pavelka Farmstead
… more about its ongoing restoration HERE . Take a virtual tour of the Pavelka Farmstead and see all that has been … women and their significant places: Pavelka Farmstead Country Tour Pavelka Farmstead 2031 Road 1100 Bladen , NE 68928 …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a … Cather’s birth; the goal was to have the first stamps offered for sale in Red Cloud on December 7, 1973. What resulted … along the streets of Red Cloud, looking for souvenirs and visiting the Cather Museum and the Cather House. Red Cloud …
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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, … spanned from 1922-24 featuring different authors writing about 48 states. In 2003, John Leonard wrote in the Nation , … 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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Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration July 21, 2022 The Willa Cather … cedar shingle roof, gutters, and downspouts Repair of the foundation and reconstruction of window wells Retention of … 30-minute narrated tour of the Willa Cather Childhood Home. About the Willa Cather Childhood Home Opened in 1967 and …
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Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection
… Image Willa's Cradle, by Betty Kort Image Out in the Kitchen, by Betty Kort Art Gallery Wednesday, Jul 19 - Saturday, Nov 4, 2023 | All day In 2007, photographer and Willa Cather Foundation executive director Betty Kort created …
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