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The Willa Cather Foundation
… Image The Willa Cather Foundation dba the National Willa Cather Center The … settings and archival material associated with her life and writings. Since its founding in 1955, the Foundation has …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/08/2024
Willa Cather's Red Cloud
… Image Willa Cather's Red Cloud Walk in her footsteps. Stay in her … of a quiet country town and its prairie surroundings. To visit Red Cloud is to experience a town and entire landscapes, largely unchanged, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/05/2024
Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal
… and reappraise many of the objects acquired when the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial was a nebulous new idea, yet to be … be a poem, a painting, a novel, a symphony, or a piece of sculpture [sic]. No thought of editors, opinions, …
Posted: 02/21/2024
Last Updated: 02/21/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's … Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … seven children raised by Charles and Mary Virginia Cather. Cathers had been in the area since the 1700s, and Back …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Discover
… of nationally-designated historic sites dedicated to an American author. For Readers For Readers For Writers For … Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to celebrating the work, life, and legacy of this great American writer. Through our scholarly endeavors, …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 12/27/2023
Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund
… Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation efforts As American author Willa Cather’s 150th approaches, her birth home, a rural farmhouse in the … remains a testament to the humble, rural origins of a great writer who, toward the end of her life, struggled to …
Posted: 05/23/2023
Last Updated: 12/06/2023
Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas … the grave of her cousin, G. P. Cather, whose death in World War I and letters written home inspired Cather to … officer and the first person from Webster County to die in World War I. Cather switches publishers from Houghton …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Pavelka Farmstead
… 2010 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to being an unassuming farm wife with … immigrant stories and rich multiculturalism that shaped the Great Plains at the dawn of the twentieth century. Pavelka’s … Women Made History " 2020 online crowdsourcing project of American women and their significant places: Pavelka …
Posted: 12/05/2014
Last Updated: 09/08/2023
Press Room
… Image Press Room We invite journalists, editors, bloggers, and the … Press Room often for the latest newsworthy information about our activities, events, and announcements. Please … Red Cloud through the ongoing efforts of the Willa Cather Foundation and their National Willa Cather Center . Media …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
Organization History
… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group … intertwined with Cather’s fictional worlds. Bennett’s 1951 biography The World of Willa Cather is still widely used by scholars as a valuable …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023