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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

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… when I confide to you that I would rather go home to Red Cloud than to any of the beautiful cities in Europe where I … to childhood friend, Carrie Miner Sherwood [April 29, 1945] Visitors to Red Cloud are invited to book a stay at the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2026

All Aboard! West-Bound Trains in American Culture

… of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and an early play, “The West Bound Train.”  After …
Posted: 04/30/2026
Last Updated: 07/20/2026

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: 03/31/2026

Finding Aids

… wide x 5 ⅜ tall x ⅝” deep. Two black and white photographs. Printed and handwritten ephemera. Container type: envelope … and journals, Union College, Western Literature, Prairie Schooner, etc   Box 46 Cassettes and Recordings … Cordially yours, Willa Cather Dust jacket very good   The Song of the Lark BK-50-308 Willa Cather 1915 1st printing …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

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

Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud

… by 9/30/23. SUPPORT THIS EXHIBIT Exhibit Sponsor Benefits   Invitation to the welcome reception. Commemorative exhibit …
Posted: 07/18/2023
Last Updated: 08/22/2025

Animal Engine Theatre Company presents "Henrietta Solway"

… Image Image Opera House Saturday, Jun 5, 2021 | 7:30pm In 2021, the National … Recessional,” and novels A Lost Lady, The Professor’s House, and Lucy Gayheart are woven together and reimagined …
Posted: 02/18/2021
Last Updated: 07/23/2024

Making a Place Exhibit Opening!

… A Long History of Red Cloud  invites visitors to explore Willa Cather's novel  A Lost Lady through topics that are both … Cooperative Producers, Inc. B. Keith and Norma F. Heuermann Foundation Rick and Kay Stahly In Memory of Doris Hunter …
Posted: 01/29/2024
Last Updated: 02/21/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … readings that there existed a growing body of evidence to support such a claim: Sharon O'Brien's influential … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

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