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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… enjoys a beverage with Bob Thacker & Mark Madigan at the Cather Seminar in Paris in 2007 Richard Harris Plans for a … by Decades of Rich Cather Experiences October 15, 2025 Willa Cather may not have been Richard Harris’s first choice … times, which makes his involvement with the Willa Cather Foundation all the more meaningful.  Image Harris (back …
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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

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

… Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 | 7 - 8:15pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States "The type of writer we have been talking about has a brain like Limbo, full of ghosts, for which he … characters and evocative descriptions of the Nebraska prairie they inhabit. Critics characterize her work as …
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Support

… Cather loved about Webster County.   Contribute to this Campaign The Willa Cather Birthplace Support for Future Preservation Willa Cather's birth home, a rural …
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Emily Caroline Cather's Trunk

… on the heels of the Willa Cather Foundation’s successful  Campaign for the Future . In 2019, History Nebraska gifted the Foundation six … The Cather family trunk’s conservation was not part of this campaign, and we must raise additional funds for this …
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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 … Cather's most famous character and the namesake for her 1918 novel. The floor plan of house was restored to its …
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Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience

… but she believes that seeing history come to life past the pages of books is just as important for historical …
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Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home

… as a beneficiary in your estate plans, please contact Ashley Olson, Executive Director, at aolson@willacather.org . …
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A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society

… about.” Considering this, it’s not surprising that when getting their affairs in order prior to a trip to Egypt in … roots are deep in the town of Red Cloud, Jay has been involved with the Willa Cather Foundation for as long as he … or a pure historic preservation society, you wouldn’t get so many different people from so many different realms …
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Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift

… Island, New Brunswick Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift September 6, 2024 … Simons, died in 1972 at 102 years old and is buried in her hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska. Kohout grew up in Texas, … her mother’s family in Lincoln, Nebraska. She has vivid memories of time spent with Mama Simons, who had moved from …
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