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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

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… Image Cather Second Home Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I … 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: 11/04/2026

Serena's Album

… Serena's Album Loading Serena's Album Rediscovering Serena’s Album In … her entire life in the area, never marrying. She died in 1924. Cather scholar Kari Ronning theorizes that Serena came … This, too, may have been meant seriously; early aviation pioneers such as John Joseph Montgomery made headlines …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead

… symbol in Cather’s work. More About the Project Image Key themes of the exhibit will include: The Conclusion of …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Cather Legacy Society

… Cather Legacy Society A Planned Gift With Lasting Impact … legacy and help further our mission. A planned gift to the Willa Cather Foundation can provide you or your estate with … Ashley Olson, Executive Director at 402-746-2653 or  aolson@willacather.org . Image Cather Legacy Society Brochure   …
Posted: 01/17/2023
Last Updated: 08/19/2025

Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… in the centenary year of her Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska … .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career … for Statuary Hall, and I'm thrilled that Nebraska will finally have a literary heroine representing our state in …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Organization History

… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation … Carrie Miner Sherwood in 1962 An early turning point in the history of the Foundation came in 1978, when its Cather … Sites in 1994 through a contractual arrangement with History Nebraska. Preservation work continued in subsequent …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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