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Guided Town Tour
… Guided Town Tour Driving Tour Guests should have their own … household items throughout the home. Burlington Depot 437 W. Welsch Street Cather uses the depot in many of her … in 1947. Farmers & Merchants Bank 338 N Webster Street This building was erected in 1889 by Silas Garber, fourth …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/07/2023
18th International Willa Cather Seminar
… Image International Seminar Wednesday, Jun 21, 2023 | 12am - Friday, Jun 23, … We hope you will make plans to attend the 18th Willa Cather International Seminar in the neighborhood where Cather lived …
Posted: 06/05/2019
Last Updated: 06/22/2023
Historic Sites
… author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the Cather family moved in. … 1965. Efforts to save the depot were extensive, requiring relocation and a full restoration—the result of the railroad's … Carrie, Mary, and Irene Miner. The Miners inspired the Harling family of My Ántonia . Cather dedicated My Ántonia …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas Garber, former captain … Red Cloud. 1913 — Cather’s first “Nebraska novel,” O Pioneers! , appears in print. Cather agrees to write S. S. …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Willa Cather Biography
… Image Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Today Willa Cather is one of the most important … blotted out" ( My Antonia 7-8). Cather's removal from the settled and deeply felt culture of postwar rural northern …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding
… conclude restoration work on the Farmers and Merchants Bank building, we now undertake the work of reinterpreting the … The bank has always been a part of our guided town tour, but the renovated spaces will soon allow our guests to … family still lived in the stockade. The school began June 3rd, 1871. She was paid $12.00 a month. …
Posted: 12/16/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Emil Frei Windows Are Beautiful Inside—And Out!
… made. Though she postpones making selections, in a June 13 letter, Cather mentions to Mrs. Sherwood that she’s … roof on the church. It seems then, as now, the old church building was being improved and repaired! But we know from … Hospital administration by arriving for an unannounced tour. We can only conjecture about when memorial windows …
Posted: 12/15/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection
… thirty original oil paintings by John Blake Bergers (1931-2011), a professional artist who dedicated his life to … Harris joined four hundred other Cather enthusiasts for bus tours of Webster County literary sites, visits to St. … an Omaha benefit performance “for the Cather Foundation building fund,” Bennett wrote. The performance would have to …
Posted: 10/20/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen
… and engagement and, in this capacity, she will lead educational programing, site tour initiatives, and public … she is not getting to know visitors or working on educator resources, Rachel enjoys volunteering and spending time with … for meeting visitors and students who come to Red Cloud to learn about Cather. What are the highlights of your job …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/07/2023
Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … p. 1 Service by Volunteers p. 1 Restoration Attracts National Attention p. 1 Notable Comments p. 2 WCPM … Displays p. 1 New Equipment Renovation p. 2 Research Center p. 2 Interest in Cather p. 2 Willa Cather Merit …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023