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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … will resume in March of 2024. Guests who book a tour in the early weeks of that month will have an opportunity to see … 150 Years of Willa Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

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

Finding Aids

… William Boone, nd) Box 47 Alicia Blue materials     Brockway Paper Collection Date range:  1880–1987 Bulk dates: … Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great 1880 Wm. Cather Jr. Private Library No. 71 Akins, Zoë Interpretations: A Book of … M. Jack and Jill: A Village Story 1887 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 25 Alcott, Louisa M. Jo's Boys: And How …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Guided Seasonal Tour

… Image Guided Seasonal Tour Ántonia's Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by … We Live" theme. The novel is set in Black Hawk, Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of … and plan to follow a tour guide from site to site. Tours last approximately 90 minutes. Book This Tour Adults: …
Posted: 08/23/2024
Last Updated: 01/03/2025

Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… writing a biography of Cather. He is co-editor of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (Knopf, 2013), and of the … Cather’s Virginia is based in Gore, Virginia, the first home of one of America’s greatest writers. Pulitzer … the complexities of her Virginia birthplace—including the stories of those who inhabited what she described as “that …
Posted: 10/07/2024
Last Updated: 10/21/2024

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 … and Twelfth Woman in the Collection June 7, 2023 A bronze sculpture of Willa Cather by artist Littleton Alston was …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Historic Sites

… hardware store for decades. “When I go about among little Nebraska towns . . . the thing I miss most is the opera … of the property was finally decided years later by the Nebraska Supreme Court. The award-winning restoration of the … twentieth century farmstead of an immigrant farm family in Nebraska. “We turned to leave the cave; Antonia and I went …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… that time too the era’s leading Cather critic, the late Susan J. Rosowski, published a review essay focused on nine … other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes for the …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail

… the Archives: Fan Mail August 22, 2022 Our archives are home to not only Willa Cather’s letters, but to many of the … family struggled to survive, was the author of hundreds of stories and poems, the proceeds of which helped to keep the … Collection Kate M. Cleary: a Literary Biography with Selected Works , by Susanne George-Bloomfield …
Posted: 08/17/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … for the Archbishop  AUTHOR: Mildred R. Bennett p. 3  TITLE: Studies of Willa Cather  AUTHOR: Charlotte S. McClure, … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

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