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Press Room

… and his creation of the Willa Cather sculpture: updated in spring 2022 with sculpture casting process] " Willa Cather … Cather. Programs include the annual Willa Cather  Spring Conferences  and biennial  International Cather Seminars , …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

About

… About About Willa Cather Today Willa Cather is one of the … Long Biography Timeline Bibliography The Willa Cather Foundation is a not-for-profit organization created in 1955 … historic sites dedicated to an American author. Board of Governors Board of Governors Foundation Staff …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 04/07/2024

George Wells' Orphan Train Experience

… interviewed George Müller Wells of nearby Cowles, Nebraska, about his childhood experience of riding the orphan train to … My father went up into Maine to find work, and he took us four children to his sister, an aunt of ours, for us to … is now. The two girls was old enough that they could press clothes and could make their living. The rest of us …
Posted: 11/18/2025
Last Updated: 04/30/2026

Serena's Album

… motto is from Pope’s “Essay on Man,” a line well-loved by newspaper writers. Mrs. Keifer’s father-in-law, J. W. … Superior girls; in late December 1888, according to local news accounts, she and Willa Cather and Loua Bellows visited …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Finding Aids

… Checks from City National Bank, Lincoln   1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton Honorary Degree     … TX-50-1000-041 Photocopies of 28 and 29               Newspaper TX-50-1000-043 Charles F. Cather Obituary …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days

… the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection in the Special Collections and Archives at the National Willa Cather Center … out of life. At first I rebelled at some things, I had to learn that every editor is not a Mr. Gere or a Mr. Jones. But I have learned that now and have resigned myself to the fact. I …
Posted: 05/19/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Progress Report p. 1  Search for Walking Plows p. 1  Scholarships p. 1  Willa Cather Museum--New Displays p. 1  … Contributions p. 1  Visitors and Volunteers p. 1  Education and Archives p. 1  Museum Associations p. 2  … Made Famous by Willa Cather: the Home and the Depot p. 1  Educational Programs p. 2  World Wide Interest in Cather p. …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

"A Lost Lady" Published in Brazil in Portuguese

… novel. We recently interviewed Tamboni on his interest in Willa Cather’s writing, his choice of A Lost Lady for their first … warning, as Professor Robison points out, while we are living in times of climate change denials; there’s a warning …
Posted: 07/01/2019
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Virtual Nebraska Authors Showcase

… about what it means to be contemporary Nebraska authors. Education coordinator Rachel Olsen will moderate a live Q&A …
Posted: 11/25/2020
Last Updated: 12/11/2020

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