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… please contact our Visitor Services Coordinator, Nick Powers, at npowers@willacather.org . Advance notice is necessary to …
Posted: 12/16/2025
Last Updated: 07/10/2026

Serena's Album

… in the 19th century. Right Rolla reveals more of his interest in card-playing. “Never looking at the card in the … married Dr. E. A. Creighton on July 28, 1900, and lived the rest of her life in Red Cloud. Mary’s favorite book is the … of his album entry John Bryant shows his geopolitical interests (and perhaps acknowledges that the album’s owner is …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Scott Kirby's Main Street Souvenirs

… please contact our Visitor Services Coordinator, Nick Powers, at npowers@willacather.org . Advance notice is necessary to …
Posted: 12/10/2025
Last Updated: 03/23/2026

Finding Aids

… wide x 5 ⅜ tall x ⅝” deep. Two black and white photographs. Printed and handwritten ephemera. Container type: envelope … and journals, Union College, Western Literature, Prairie Schooner, etc   Box 46 Cassettes and Recordings … Cordially yours, Willa Cather Dust jacket very good   The Song of the Lark BK-50-308 Willa Cather 1915 1st printing …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

"Greatness Returning to Simplicity":

… Image Death Comes for the Archbishop first edition Image Cather Postcard from Arizona (1912) Image Cather's annotated source material "Greatness Returning to Simplicity": Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop Regularly …
Posted: 01/29/2026
Last Updated: 01/30/2026

Cather's Santa Fe: A Walking Tour

… again this fall, we journey to Santa Fe to explore one of Cather's favorite cities. Our tour guide, Garrett Peck, will … author, historian, and tour guide in Santa Fe. He leads the Willa Cather’s Santa Fe walking tour, and his new book The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop is available for preorder .  …
Posted: 10/30/2025
Last Updated: 10/30/2025

Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead

… A new permanent exhibit "We turned to leave the cave; Ántonia and I went up the stairs first, and the children … cave into the sunlight. It made me dizzy for a moment." - My Ántonia Image Located in rural Webster County, near … Sponsor Benefits   Invitation to the welcome reception. Commemorative exhibit bookmark.   Set of notecards featuring …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Guided Seasonal Tour

… Image Guided Seasonal Tour Ántonia's Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by … Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of Red Cloud. More than that, Cather's memorable … and plan to follow a tour guide from site to site. Tours last approximately 90 minutes. Book This Tour Adults: …
Posted: 08/23/2024
Last Updated: 01/03/2025

NEA Big Read: My Ántonia

… to Communities and Organizations September 4, 2024 Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by … reading programs designed around a single NEA Big Read book, with an aim to broaden our understanding of our world, … embodies the NEA’s "Where We Live" theme. The novel is set in Black Hawk, Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/29/2024

Cather's Santa Fe: A Walking Tour - SOLD OUT!

… Image Cather wrote to decline a lecture request in 1925, using this La Fonda postcard Join us on the Plaza! Special Events Wednesday, Nov … visit the Cathedral on your own before joining the National Willa Cather staff for a drink and small bites nearby, …
Posted: 09/18/2023
Last Updated: 10/15/2024

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