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Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading

… A registration and Chasing Bright Medusas book bundle option is also available for this event, and the cost includes shipping.  Interested in additional books about …
Posted: 10/04/2023
Last Updated: 12/05/2023

“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years  Cather's essay for the Nation still resonates September 5, … than I do, are satisfied with my presentation of it.”   [Willa Cather Papers, 1899-1949, in the Clifton Waller … on the map” as Babbit would glibly phrase it. It would be literary sacrilege to speak of so fine a composition in the …
Posted: 09/05/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Virtual Author Series: Tracy Daugherty

… Street.   This novel explores the friendship between Willa Cather and Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. Two different writers … of English and Creative Writing, Emeritus. In 2018, Literary Arts awarded him and his wife, Marjorie Sandor, the …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 07/13/2023

Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… Red Cloud did not have a public library until 1917. Though literary clubs were popular in the area, most people relied … of the Auld Library  and the purchase of books. Charles Cather was elected the first president of the library board. … what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is significant; …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/11/2023

Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns!

… between the University of Nebraska and the National Willa Cather Center. Nolan Bennett , originally from Kearney, … Double Major, she has an interest in creative writing, literary studies and indigenous studies. Lucy became …
Posted: 07/07/2023
Last Updated: 07/07/2023

Authors Margo Jefferson & Elizabeth Kendall

… United States '"Raw and relentless/gaudy and extravagant": Willa Cather's New York' Join us at the  18th International Willa … dance. She is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Literary Studies at the Eugene Lang College of New School in …
Posted: 06/14/2023
Last Updated: 06/14/2023

Press Room

… For more information about Red Cloud, please contact Jarrod McCartney, Director, Red Cloud Heritage Tourism Development at  Visit Red Cloud  •  jmccartney@redcloudnebraska.com Other Notable Media Coverage …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

Organization History

… Cather  is still widely used by scholars as a valuable source work for Cather’s early years. In the early 1950s, … work; the  St. Juliana Catholic Church , of the novel  My Ántonia  the  Grace Episcopal Church , which houses a pair … and the Pavelka Farmstead, the rural setting for the final scenes in  My Ántonia . A pivotal event was the 1962 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

Event Archives

… Writers Special Events Spring Conference Image 70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference Spring Conference: Thursday, Jun 5 … | 1 - 2pm CT Willa Cather's early novels depicting farm life explore both her memories of Nebraska and a nation …
Posted: 02/23/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Artist Reception for Shane Booth and Book Talk with Alan Wilkinson

… Image Image Image Image Art Gallery Saturday, Jun 25, 2016 | 4 - 6pm Red Cloud Opera … States Join us five miles south of Red Cloud at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie beginning at 9:30 AM as photographer, Shane Booth, …
Posted: 06/06/2016
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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