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Students Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely!
… Image Students Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely! June 25, 2020 Despite …
Posted: 06/25/2020
Last Updated: 07/01/2020
The Potter Block's New Life as Hotel Garber
… lodging for guests and expanded meeting facilities for events and retreats. It will allow our visitors to the …
Posted: 08/24/2023
Last Updated: 09/20/2023
O Pioneers!
… Image © Tracy Sanford Tucker for the National Willa Cather Center A University … of Nebraska-Lincoln Opera Opera House Friday, Oct 20, 2023 | 7 - 9pm the Red Cloud Opera House 413 N Webster … Tickets UNL Opera presents Tyler Goodrich White’s O Pioneers! based on Willa Cather’s 1913 novel--her first …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/19/2023
Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… #4: Death Comes for the Archbishop As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed novelist … and current trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and serves as president of the Edward F. Albee …
Posted: 04/24/2023
Last Updated: 09/15/2023
Willa Cather's Red Cloud
… Image Willa Cather's Red Cloud Walk in her footsteps. Stay in her town. … and education as a child, restored and open today with events and performances throughout the year. Our Special … nostalgia of a country school. " —from a 1973 Willa Cather Foundation newsletter Outside of town, in Webster County, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 09/10/2023
Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience
… Abbie Loomis was thirteen years old when she discovered Willa Cather. Her mother was a voracious reader, and My … Ántonia that she revisits every few years. “Once I found Willa Cather, and as I got older, I realized wow, she wrote … for her 1918 novel, My Ántonia. “You can see it now, the children flying out of the cellar, and that’s just such a …
Posted: 09/08/2023
Last Updated: 09/08/2023
Pavelka Farmstead
… children emerged in a burst of light and life, is located just south of Highway 4 near Bladen. Restored and managed by … of an immigrant farm family in Nebraska. Read more about its ongoing restoration HERE . Take a virtual tour of … Review , published three times a year by the Willa Cather Foundation, and an article about the Pavelka Farmstead — …
Posted: 12/05/2014
Last Updated: 09/08/2023
Join Our Team
… its founding in 1955, the Foundation has been headquartered in Cather's hometown of rural Red Cloud, Nebraska. Our purpose is to promote and encourage … Curation Orient guests to our bookstore, exhibit, and art gallery spaces Encourage visitors to sign our guestbook as …
Posted: 09/07/2023
Last Updated: 09/08/2023
Legacy Society
… to the Foundation Why a Bequest? This simple method of remembering the Willa Cather Foundation assures that some … the Immigrant Experience Abbie Loomis first discovered My Ántonia as a teenager and has been reading her mother's copy …
Posted: 01/17/2023
Last Updated: 09/08/2023
50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … body the importance that Miss Cather holds in American and world literature. It is eminently appropriate both that her …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023