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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen January 15, 2023 Rachel Olsen has been part of the Willa Cather … I wasn’t a harsh critic, either, she just wasn’t on my radar. In graduate school, my areas of interest were late … like, she’s messy, and that is what I love about her. If My Ántonia connects readers to the world of immigrant …
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Ongoing Historic Site Restoration & Campaign Updates

… Image Ongoing Historic Site Restoration & Campaign Updates April 22, 2021 Thanks to your many generous contributions to our Campaign for the Future , historic site restoration and preservation work has …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… by One of Ours p. 67  The Opera House Endowment Fund and Planned Giving p. 68  Photograph of Snow on the prairie by Betty …
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Laura Bush Announces the Willa Cather Campaign for the Future

… Announces the Willa Cather Campaign for the Future January 14, 2020 Today, we announce the Willa Cather Foundation's … house, the railroad depot, and the landscape. It’s one of my favorite places in all of America.” The Campaign for the … which is central to Cather’s most celebrated novel, My Ántonia. Adding to the success of the campaign is a Save …
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Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published January 10, 2012 Fragments from Willa Cather’s Lost Work Published … include Alexander’s Bridge (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), and A Lost Lady (1923), all of which …
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Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

… into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame March 21, 2011 Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall … national recognition for novels such as O Pioneers! and My Ántonia, in which she drew on her own experiences of growing …
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Music on the Prairie

… Image Music on the Prairie May 16, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write … the land that Cather so vividly described in works such as My Ántonia and O Pioneers!. “Music on the Cather Prairie” …
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I Love A Prairie: Author Pam Houston Visits Red Cloud

… "relied on her for the courage" to write her 2019 memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country  [W.W. Norton]. Houston …
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Writers Group Makes Its Way to Red Cloud

… Writers Group Makes Its Way to Red Cloud October 20, 2021 A group of longtime writers arrived in Red Cloud and the … Farmstead . In preparation for their visit, the group read My Ántonia . Education coordinator Rachel Olsen joined the …
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MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner

… Her School to Antonette Willa Turner October 25, 2019 “You have a little Willa Cather right here in Bladen,” … from the National Willa Cather Center donated copies of My Ántonia and Willa: The Story of Willa Cather, an American …
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