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Guided Willa Cather Tours

… Guided Willa Cather Tours The National Willa Cather Center and many of our … Three-Building Tour Experience Downtown Red Cloud This is a walking or driving tour of three historic sites associated …
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A Special Challenge Grant Opportunity

… A Special Challenge Grant Opportunity 2025 Year-End Campaign The Mammel Foundation has generously offered … to inspire you to make a donation this year. To qualify for the challenge, your gift must be received by December … you help ensure that her work is ever present—and that future generations continue to learn, reflect, and be …
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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… a beverage with Bob Thacker & Mark Madigan at the Cather Seminar in Paris in 2007 Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy … Harris’s first choice for a 20th-century American novel seminar paper in 1971, but he’s been choosing her ever … 1987, and he’s traveled across the country and abroad for International Willa Cather Seminars. “The Cather group was …
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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not … to childhood friend, Carrie Miner Sherwood [April 29, 1945] Visitors to Red Cloud are invited to book a stay at … 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

… into novels and short stories such as My Ántonia , The Song of the Lark , "The Sculptor's Funeral," and "The Affair at Grover …
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Support

… almost 20,000 square feet of space that includes a public museum, archive, research center, classroom, bookstore, art … stay longer to enjoy the museum and all that Cather loved about Webster County.   Contribute to this Campaign The … to donate it to a nonprofit within a year. The Willa Cather Foundation is continuing to work alongside stakeholders in …
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Emily Caroline Cather's Trunk

… Artifact in Need of Conservation Image During preparation for the restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood Home, a … on the heels of the Willa Cather Foundation’s successful  Campaign for the Future . In 2019, History Nebraska gifted the Foundation six …
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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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Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience

… and discovered her passion for librarianship.  “There weren’t a whole lot of jobs at that time in Victorian … sadness because the house was one of the real evidences of what it must have been like to live out there at that time.” … Loomis has not seen the updated site in person, she is grateful for all that was done to ensure that the stories of …
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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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