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Nebraska Collaborative Research Grants

… guidance from Cather Project and Willa Cather Archive staff and may have opportunities to present their work in … materials. The NWCC archive in Red Cloud, located about two and a half hours from Lincoln, includes letters, … Woodress Fund, administered by the University of Nebraska Foundation. Applicants should submit the following materials …
Posted: 11/05/2025
Last Updated: 11/21/2025

Home for the Holidays

… Almost every one I meet has a bundle and is hurrying home to hide it."  –Willa Cather, Nebraska State Journal, … this tour includes:  A tour of the Willa Cather Childhood Home, adorned for the holidays A copy of "The Burglar's …
Posted: 11/07/2025
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

Lauren Anderson – NEW DATE!

… a room for two at Hotel Garber, a tour of three historic Willa Cather sites, drinks at Forrester's Restaurant and Lounge, … and Ridgeline Exteriors LLC. Programming at the National Willa Cather Center's Red Cloud Opera House is made possible …
Posted: 12/16/2024
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… Image Cather's Thanksgiving postcard to her niece, 1909 … of beauty and sentiment, as spring is in the Old World." —Willa Cather,  "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle,"   … her first job as editor of The Home Monthly in Pittsburgh , Willa Cather wrote “The Origin of Thanksgiving” under the …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture

…    –Lucy Gayheart Image Coming Spring 2026! The National Willa Cather Center’s historic Burlington Depot will soon welcome … functions as the crucial backdrop to telling the story of Willa Cather’s initial encounters with the Nebraska frontier …
Posted: 02/14/2024
Last Updated: 10/30/2025

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

Group and Motorcoach Tours

… and author of  O Pioneers! ,  My Ántonia  and  One of Ours. Image Historic Site Tour The National Willa Cather Center is … of Red Cloud — and changing art installations in our galleries Enjoy scenic country roads or take a Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/29/2025

A Special Challenge Grant Opportunity

… be received by December 31. Thank you! DONATE This year the Cather Center proudly completed a nationwide “Big Read” of … experience, and the power of historical reflection through Willa Cather’s prose.  Our work doesn’t stop here. With your … a gift today to sustain and grow these vital programs?  Willa Cather believed that great novels were often taken for …
Posted: 11/06/2024
Last Updated: 10/23/2025

Visit

… Visit Visit the Museum No study of Cather is complete without a trip to Red Cloud. The National Willa Cather Center is an award-winning museum in the heart …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/23/2025

Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… true. Every so often, this quote makes the rounds on social media, and no matter how much I wish Cather had said it, I … O'Keeffe? Many readers of Cather's work and her biography immediately connect her with Georgia O'Keeffe—with good …
Posted: 10/15/2025
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

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