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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… Front cover of the September 5, 1923 issue of the Nation “Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years … 1921 that she “ must get to work at once on an article on 'Nebraska' the Nation has asked me to do for their … embarked on a Midwest speaking tour which included stops in Nebraska. In Omaha she admonished Nebraska’s decision to …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones
… stays. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the … gallery and exhibit areas and space for historic site tours that will highlight connections to Red Cloud’s history and Willa Cather’s life and writing. The project is a key priority for …
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Potter Block Ceremonial Groundbreaking
… a Reality October 13, 2022 A standing-room only crowd of about 100 people gathered at the Potter Block (346 N. … years. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the … enjoy the museum, the historic sites, the town, the Cather Prairie, and other scenic places Cather loved. In the first …
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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann
… Register Online Now Join us for an engaging conversation about Nebraska memoir with Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne … it. If you are interested in the same "human stories" Willa Cather illuminated in her own work, you will enjoy this free … monarch groves of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled …
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Music in Willa Cather's Writing
… Image Music in Willa Cather's Writing While not a musician herself, Willa Cather … to serving to help readers better understand Cather and her world, the playlists are wonderful companions on your daily …
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Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns!
… between the University of Nebraska and the National Willa Cather Center. Nolan Bennett , originally from Kearney, … to nature. Since arriving in Red Cloud he has increased his Cather reads from four novels to seven, after first being … out guests by working in the bookstore and giving town tours around Red Cloud, as well as researching resources for …
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Press Room
… life. Cather was the first American writer to use the Great Plains as a detailed setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the American … in Cather's work—in particular O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), My Ántonia (1918), One of Ours …
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Event Archives
… Archives Keywords Type - Any - Art Gallery Author Series International Seminar Opera House Prairie Writers Special Events Spring …
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Artist Reception for Shane Booth and Book Talk with Alan Wilkinson
… Image Image Art Gallery Saturday, Jun 25, 2016 | 4 - 6pm Red Cloud Opera House 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … Wilkinson, will read from his book, The Red House on the Niobrara . Times for these free events are: 9:30 AM – …
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"A Walk in Her Footsteps" Tour & Theater Package
… 6, 2019 | 12am - Sunday, Dec 8, 2019 | 12am National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster St. Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … Spend three inspiring days, December 6-8, exploring Willa Cather's world and Red Cloud with our newly launched "A Walk … picnic basket to bring to the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie where you might catch a magnificent prairie sunset, …
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