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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 …
Posted: 08/26/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

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 … Cather's most famous character and the namesake for her 1918 novel. The floor plan of house was restored to its …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience

… Willa Cather. Her mother was a voracious reader, and My Ántonia was among the Cather books on her shelf the day … Cather’s most famous character and the namesake for her 1918 novel, My Ántonia. “You can see it now, the children …
Posted: 09/08/2023
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home

… generation in the J.L. Miner House, or the Harling House in My Ántonia . He was the grandson of the home’s namesake and son … After her quick stop in Red Cloud with her father in the 1990s, Jaydene began researching her Miner family history …
Posted: 03/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

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 …
Posted: 07/13/2016
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift

… but she devoted the majority of her career to public health. By the time she retired in 2012, Kohout was a proud and committed public health advocate for the Centers for Disease Control and …
Posted: 09/10/2024
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources

… visit to the archives, where the documents of the past 150 years can be examined in close detail. Our archivist, … Detective" Educators can put these resources to use in myriad ways. Bellringers that use archival resources are … This cartoon , though published thirty years before My Ántonia , draws inspiration from a popular motif that Cather …
Posted: 07/29/2024
Last Updated: 09/09/2025

One-Day Bus Tour to the National Willa Cather Center

… Omaha & Lincoln to Red Cloud Special Events Tuesday, Sep 16, 2025 | All day CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N … Home, and visit other settings from her acclaimed novel My Ántonia . An all-inclusive fee of $175 includes round-trip …
Posted: 03/05/2024
Last Updated: 09/05/2025

An Immersive Willa Cather Experience

… Cather Childhood Home was reopened in December 2023 after a 16-month restoraton. Image The Red Cloud Opera House and … our Country Tour and is the setting of the final section of My Ántonia. Image The Willa Cather Memorial Prairie An …
Posted: 01/22/2025
Last Updated: 08/22/2025

Cather Legacy Society

… estate) to the Willa Cather Foundation, a Nebraska 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, 413 North Webster Street, Red … by the Immigrant Experience Abbie Loomis first discovered My Ántonia as a teenager and has been reading her mother's copy …
Posted: 01/17/2023
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

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