Skip to main content
x

User account menu

  • Join
  • Donate
Home
National Willa Cather Center - Red Cloud, NE

User account menu

  • Join
  • Donate

Main navigation

  • About
    • About
      • Willa Cather
      • The Foundation
      • Staff
      • Board of Governors
      • News
      • Annual Reports
      • Newsletters
      • Permissions
  • Visit
    • Visit
      • Hours & Directions
      • Tours
      • Lodging
      • National Willa Cather Center
      • Red Cloud Opera House
      • Cather Prairie
      • Willa Cather's Red Cloud
      • Cather Immersion Package
  • Events
    • Events
      • Art Gallery
      • Author Series
      • Call for Papers
      • International Seminar
      • Opera House
      • Rentals
      • Special Events
      • Spring Conference
  • Collections
    • Collections
      • Historic Sites
      • The Collections at NWCC
      • Explore the Collection
      • Finding Aids
      • Annotations from the Archive
      • Collections Policies
  • Discover
    • Educational Resources
      • Overview
      • For Readers
      • For Teachers
      • For Students
      • For Writers
      • Virtual Tours
      • Exhibits
  • Support
    • Support
      • Donate
      • Membership
      • Planned Giving
      • Charitable IRA Rollover
      • Opera House Sponsor
      • Conference Sponsor
      • Shop
      • Volunteer

Search Results

7 results found

Our Final Ántonia Story!

… Image Our Final Ántonia Story! December 31, 2018 As we began celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the … this beloved novel is important to them. (To download the  Winter 2018 issue, click HERE .) As these stories arrived in … amazed and delighted and moved by them. I was surprised by how different they were, and by how they spoke to each …
Posted: 09/06/2018
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not exaggerating, Carrie, when I … 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: 10/16/2025

Support

… a Member Become a Member Make A Donation Make A Donation Planned Giving Planned Giving Charitable IRA Rollover Charitable IRA …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead

… the cave; Ántonia and I went up the stairs first, and the children waited. We were standing outside talking, when they … Pavelka was the inspiration for Ántonia Shimerda, arguably Willa Cather's most famous character and the namesake for … site/object/person important to the life and writing of Willa Cather? We hope this two-fold interpretive strategy …
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 significant …
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 … event being celebrated throughout the year and across the country. The occasion also comes in the centenary year of … on "Willa Cather as a Nebraskan." In Red Cloud, guided tours of Cather historic sites were offered at 11:00 a.m., …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Organization History

… Cather  is still widely used by scholars as a valuable source work for Cather’s early years. In the early 1950s, … work; the  St. Juliana Catholic Church , of the novel  My Ántonia  the  Grace Episcopal Church , which houses a pair … and the Pavelka Farmstead, the rural setting for the final scenes in  My Ántonia . A pivotal event was the 1962 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

Willa Cather Center Logo
The National Willa Cather Center
413 North Webster — Red Cloud, NE 68970
402.746.2653
Nebraska Arts Council Nebraska Arts Council
National Endowment for the Humanities National Endowment for the Humanities
American Writers Museum American Writers Museum
Humanities Nebraska Humanities Nebraska
Gold Transparency 2025 Gold Transparency 2025

© All Rights Reserved The Willa Cather Foundation. This institution is an equal opportunity provider & employer. The National Willa Cather Center is the registered trade name of the Willa Cather Foundation, a not-for-profit, tax-exempt charitable organization (TAX ID # 47-0485401) under the Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code

Website Designed & Developed by UNANIMOUS
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter/X
  • YouTube