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Willa Cather Memorial Prairie

… Image Willa Cather Memorial Prairie The Willa Cather Memorial Prairie is … art, history, and culture has been lost to much of the world. Of the millions of acres of grasslands that once … upland plovers, wild turkeys, bobolinks and other New World blackbird species, vesper sparrows and their many …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 06/29/2025

Stargazing on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie

… Image Garrett Peck Image Star Gazing at the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference With Garrett Peck Spring Conference … New Mexico's dark skies. His book, The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop , will be published …
Posted: 05/19/2025
Last Updated: 05/22/2025

The Willa Cather Foundation

… advancing Willa Cather's legacy locally and beyond through education, preservation, and the arts. Our Vision: People … great American writer. Through our scholarly endeavors, educational outreach, arts and humanities programs, and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/07/2026

Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… Saturday, Oct 24, 2026 | 7 - 8:15pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … Online Now "The type of writer we have been talking about has a brain like Limbo, full of ghosts, for which he … characters and evocative descriptions of the Nebraska prairie they inhabit. Critics characterize her work as …
Posted: 08/18/2025
Last Updated: 09/24/2026

71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Spring Conference Emblem Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather in Dialogue with America 250 Spring Conference … performance of The Bohemian by Harbor Stage Company . Set in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud , the conference … events; a signed copy of Rebecca Romney’s Jane Austen's Bookshelf , plus a meet and greet after the keynote. Please …
Posted: 08/20/2025
Last Updated: 09/08/2026

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not … a letter to childhood friend, Carrie Miner Sherwood [April 29, 1945] Visitors to Red Cloud are invited to book a stay … a shared half bathroom. Named after the Nebraska town in  O Pioneers! , the room is above the former kitchen with its …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2026

All the Colors of the Prairie

… exhibit, October 24, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. The public is welcome! Programming at the National Willa Cather Center's … Arts Council, and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.  About the Artist Yelena Khanevskaya paints in her Wildcat …
Posted: 06/24/2026
Last Updated: 08/11/2026

National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather … watch the sunrise and sunset at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Explore scenic country roads on a Cather "Country … travel; happiness and sadness; the bitter and the sweet.   About the Exhibit Introductory Short Film About Willa Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/14/2026

Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home | April 2024 Image Willa Cather … Home | April 2024 Image Guided Tours to Follow Special Events Saturday, Jun 8, 2024 | 1:30 - 2:30pm CT 245 N. Cedar … Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States Join Willa Cather Foundation leadership, project partners and supporters, …
Posted: 05/13/2024
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society

… Cloud and historic preservation. “The physical and natural environment that Cather saw is still available for people to …
Posted: 07/13/2016
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

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