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Lucy Gayheart

… Image Lucy Gayheart Book Club Resources Lucy Gayheart is a bright eighteen-year-old who heads to the big …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/21/2023

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest … to the life and works of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. Our museum and archival collections, housed in … agreement   1840 Document TX-50-1000-069 Charles F. Cather biography     Stationery OBJ-50-1000-070 Willa Cather's …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture

… Cather Center’s historic Burlington Depot will soon welcome visitors of all ages to explore the sights and sounds of the railway! When the railroad opened in Red Cloud in 1878, the fortunes of the town were forever …
Posted: 02/14/2024
Last Updated: 10/30/2025

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… for our guests. Haverford Room Named after the town in  Lucy Gayheart , Haverford was the room of Cather's brother, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Support

… Shop Shop Reinterpreting the Burlington Depot Support Our Newest Exhibit The Burlington Depot has undergone … uses the depot as a setting in many of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and an … will recall the farmstead and the fruit cave from from the final scenes of the novel. Anna Sadilek Pavelka was the …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud

… & Merchants Bank As we mark the publication centenary of Willa Cather's A Lost Lady , a new permanent exhibit for the … Willa Cather Center's founder, Mildred Bennett. More About the Project One of Red Cloud’s most arresting …
Posted: 07/18/2023
Last Updated: 08/22/2025

Animal Engine Theatre Company presents "Henrietta Solway"

… and novels A Lost Lady, The Professor’s House, and Lucy Gayheart are woven together and reimagined to tell a story …
Posted: 02/18/2021
Last Updated: 07/23/2024

Making a Place Exhibit Opening!

… Explore local history on Nebraska Statehood Day! Special Events Friday, Mar 1, 2024 | 3 - 6pm 338 N. Webster St. Red … A Long History of Red Cloud  invites visitors to explore Willa Cather's novel  A Lost Lady through topics that are … of 1893; and early preservation efforts led by the National Willa Cather Center's founder, Mildred Bennett. One of Red …
Posted: 01/29/2024
Last Updated: 02/21/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… P. Stout’s Cather Among the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative … precluded by a proviso in Cather’s will. But The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (2013), edited by Andrew … an explosion, a pest" (Politics 7), listened to these stories and stockpiled the details, not knowing the use she …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — … Frances A. (Smith) Cather (the eventual uncle and aunt of Willa Cather) stake a homestead on the Divide, a broad … Poems  is released.  A Lost Lady , a novel based in part on events in the lives of Silas Garber and his wife Lyra …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

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