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Our Final Ántonia Story!

… Image Our Final Ántonia Story! December 31, 2018 As we began celebrating the …
Posted: 09/06/2018
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Serena's Album

… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather … theorizes that Serena came to Red Cloud to continue her studies with J. F. Curran, the very popular Superior High … photographer, of German parentage. He appears in an 1899 volume entitled Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Support

… Support Support the NWCC Located in Cather’s childhood … the house, sparing it from demolition. Her intention is to donate it to a nonprofit within a year. The Willa Cather Foundation is continuing to work alongside stakeholders in …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 03/31/2026

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… to childhood friend, Carrie Miner Sherwood [April 29, 1945] Visitors to Red Cloud are invited to book a stay at the … is called Moonstone for the town in Cather's novel  The Song of the Lark . During Cather's time, this was the room of Willa's …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/16/2025

Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead

… A new permanent exhibit "We turned to leave the cave; Ántonia and I went up the stairs first, and the children … cave into the sunlight. It made me dizzy for a moment." - My Ántonia Image Located in rural Webster County, near … welcome reception. Commemorative exhibit bookmark.   Set of notecards featuring illustrations by Władysław T. Benda …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Cather Legacy Society

… takes into account the people, places, and causes you care about. Joining the Cather Legacy Society is an excellent way … further our mission. A planned gift to the Willa Cather Foundation can provide you or your estate with significant … insurance policy. No matter how you choose to give, our staff can help guide you through the process as you fulfill …
Posted: 01/17/2023
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

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 Hall, U.S. Capitol Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol First Pulitzer Prize Winner and Twelfth Woman in the …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Organization History

… early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small group of Red Cloud citizens, interested individuals, … Cather, great woman, great literary artist, who once was one of ours and now belongs to the great world and to time, … Sites and the collection became known as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection. The Foundation later assumed …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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