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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

… 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 Aboard! West-Bound Trains in American Culture

… two-story section of the depot, constructed in 1897, is the building Cather was familiar with during her last years in … Guests are invited to view the exhibit as part of a guided tour. About the tour …
Posted: 04/30/2026
Last Updated: 07/20/2026

Support

… Support the NWCC Located in Cather’s childhood hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, the Center provides almost 20,000 square … museum, archive, research center, classroom, bookstore, art gallery, and performing arts center. The Center occupies Red …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 03/31/2026

Finding Aids

… Wedding Anniversary from Willa Cather December 1923   My Ántonia BK-50-306 Willa Cather  1918 1st printing Elsie … of "Spanish Johnny" and "The Swedish Monther" pasted in My Ántonia BK-50-320 Willa Cather` 1918 association copy "To …  Toho University Goichi Fukui 1979 Article Tx-50-4000-F32 "Remembering Willa Cather" in  Woman's Press Lorna R. R. …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

All Aboard: West-Bound Trains in American Culture

… they could not endure their own town a moment longer.”     –Lucy Gayheart Image Coming Spring 2026! The National Willa Cather … of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and an early play, “The West Bound Train.” …
Posted: 02/14/2024
Last Updated: 10/30/2025

Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud

… As we mark the publication centenary of Willa Cather's A Lost Lady , a new permanent exhibit for the Farmers and Merchants … life and as portrayed as Captain and Mrs. Forrester in A Lost Lady ; town-making and homesteading; banking and the …
Posted: 07/18/2023
Last Updated: 08/22/2025

Animal Engine Theatre Company presents "Henrietta Solway"

… “El Dorado: A Kansas Recessional,” and novels A Lost Lady, The Professor’s House, and Lucy Gayheart are woven …
Posted: 02/18/2021
Last Updated: 07/23/2024

Making a Place Exhibit Opening!

… writings: the short story "Two Friends," and the novel  Lucy Gayheart . The bank is also the first building owned and …
Posted: 01/29/2024
Last Updated: 02/21/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … performances, wrote criticism for concerts and the dramatic arts for  Pittsburgh Daily Leader , sent some of the same … Solved: Willa Cather's Violent Self-Construction."      Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather. Ed. Joesph R. Urgo and …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

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