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Virtual Author Series: Garrett Peck

… Image The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop Author Series Thursday, Mar 19, … explores how Cather’s travels to the Southwest inspired her writing. She visited the Southwest six times between 1912 …
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Annotations From the Archives: Red Cloud's Christmas Traditions

… From the Archives: Red Cloud's Christmas Traditions December 10, 2025 In Webster County during Willa Cather’s … of Red Cloud, held an annual supper and dance on Christmas night. The Red Cloud volunteer fire department also gave a … forget and cease to love, but her childhood is eternal. (December 17, 1893) Later, this memory would fuel the ending …
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Experience America’s Literary Legacy

… girl and throughout her life. Red Cloud is a rural town of 1,000 people far from any city or suburban sprawl. It is a … is her childhood bedroom and its original wallpaper in The Song of the Lark  or the Miner House that became the Harling home in My …
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Ashley Olson Receives Mildred Bennett Award

… The Nebraska Center of the Book recently honored National Willa Cather Center Executive Director Ashley Olson with the 2025 … two permanent exhibits, American Bittersweet: the Life and Writing of Willa Cather and Making a Place: A Long History …
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Nebraska Collaborative Research Grants

… Research Grants Call for applications November 5, 2025 The Cather Project of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s … Department of English, in partnership with the Willa Cather Archive of the UNL Libraries and the National … research that deepens our understanding of Cather’s writing and legacy.” In addition to access to primary …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest … Miner Sherwood. Microfilm roll of Day by Day with the Utah Pioneers, 1847 . Language: The material is in English Access … Mildred Bennett Collection documents the organizational and scholarly work of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial’s …
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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,"   … to American ears. But such injustice is not rare in history. . . . "At last, after twenty years of fruitless …
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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 … immigrants, laborers, and others on the fringes of Cather's world. Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image …
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Group and Motorcoach Tours

… Group and Motorcoach Tours Discover the World of Willa Cather on the American … Cather—Nebraska’s "foremost citizen" and author of  O Pioneers! ,  My Ántonia  and  One of Ours. Image Historic Site Tour The National Willa …
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A Special Challenge Grant Opportunity

… my English teacher assigned My Ántonia for our reading schedule, I believed it would just be another homework …
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