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Guided Town Tour

… Guided Town Tour Driving Tour Guests should have their own … Children: (5 & under) – Free Book a Tour Willa Cather Childhood Home 245 N Cedar Street (Closed for Restoration) The Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/07/2023

18th International Willa Cather Seminar

… most of her professional writing life in New York (1906-1947), first in Greenwich Village and later, after she had … and professional life. Seminar check-in is at the Lang Café building, located at 65 W. 11th, first floor. A full … Award from the W.A. Percy Foundation. An Abbreviated Tour of Cather's Greenwich Village Take an hourlong stroll …
Posted: 06/05/2019
Last Updated: 06/22/2023

Historic Sites

… sites dedicated to an American author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the … restored exterior finishes, but will also offer accessible tours for those with mobility limitations. “When she went …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States … that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871  — In Silas Garber’s dugout, Webster County and the … close friend. 1912  — Cather’s first novel,  Alexander’s Bridge , appears in  McClure’s  as  Alexander’s Masquerade . …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Biography

… Image Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Today Willa Cather is one of the most … leading Cather critic, Susan J. Rosowski, published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a …
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 … short a time. From David Helvern’s letter to the editor, 1875: I think [an aid organization] in every township or road …
Posted: 12/16/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Annotations from the Archive: Emil Frei Windows Are Beautiful Inside—And Out!

… is Cather’s letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood, sent on June 7, 1928. Written just three months after her father’s death, … 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

… to the Willa Cather Foundation over several years. In 1987, acclaimed actress Julie Harris accepted the invitation of … 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

… oversees the Red Cloud Opera House season of events, plans conferences and seminars, and fosters relationships with … events and discussions coming together for our 68th annual Spring Conference, and the 18th Willa Cather International …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/07/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… and special features of each issue of the Review since its first publication in 1957. Simply use the Control + F … Monday, April 15, 1912) p. 42  TITLE: "The Cather Question" (poem)  AUTHOR: May Hutchinson p. 43  Also in this … Gervaud p. 22  TITLE: Coming of Age and Domesticating Space in the Wilderness: Roberts's The Great Meadow and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

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