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My Ántonia at 100: The Ongoing Story
… Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States “Black Hawk, the new world in which we had come to live”: Stories from the Red Cloud Community A special session of … Nebraska, both during Cather’s life and today. In My Ántonia when Jim Burden is relocated to Black Hawk (Cather’s …
Posted: 03/14/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen
… becoming our first education coordinator in 2019. In the fall of 2022, she was promoted to director of education and … of my job is our Teacher Institute program that takes place each summer. We launched this last year, and it was so … an Opera House show or to look at contemporary art in our gallery or visit the prairie, I hope they understand that …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/07/2023
Historic Sites
… to Willa Cather's life and writing. “Every time I talked about Cather in Webster County,” Mildred Bennett said in an … with Cather's life. Today, our organization owns and operates the nation's largest collection of … author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the Cather family moved in. …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024
Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Exterior of the restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Image Earliest image of the Willa … Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn about … has become known as one of America’s canonical authors. The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 04/25/2024
Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … —Watch a recording of the ceremony and scroll down for a gallery of images and more information— The Congressional … 7, 2023, at 11:00 a.m ET. A special thanks to Willa Cather Foundation member Peg O’Dea Lippert, for conceiving the idea …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 04/03/2024
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: 02/17/2024
Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather
… with a singular voice in her body of poems, essays, short stories, and the critically acclaimed novels One of Ours , O Pioneers! , The Song of the Lark , and My Ántonia . In partnership with the Ames Writers Collective … Willa Cather Center, readers will be reacquainted, and new readers will be introduced to Cather's body of work. …
Posted: 01/04/2024
Last Updated: 02/05/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … Willa Cather: A Literary Life had each appeared in 1987; about that time too the era’s leading Cather critic, the … that transformed her career. Building upon her solid foundation as an energetic journalist in Lincoln and …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Willa Cather Timeline
… and is buried near a crossroads. Cather, on whom almost nothing was lost, will later use this event in one of her … train with the rest of the family to Red Cloud. Also accompanying the family are Rachel Boak, the hired girl Marjorie … the Farmers and Merchants Bank is completed. It will close just four years later, a victim of the Panic of 1893. Blind …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… for this series. We will read: April 27, at 7:00 pm CT: My Ántonia June 1, at 12:30 pm CT: A Lost Lady September 21, … Angeles Times/Christopher Isherwood Prize and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice; his Proust: The Search … York Times Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag, Debriefing , was published by …
Posted: 04/24/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023