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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours … and 2022 by paper conservators from the Ford Conservation Center in Omaha, Nebraska. The project was supported by the …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Finding Aids

… Lucy Gayheart Willa Cather 1935     Book  BK-207-029 Obscure Destinies Willa Cather 1932     Book BK-207-030 Death Comes … (Tauchnitz Edition) Willa Cather 1935     Book BK-207-038 Obscure Destinies (Tauchnitz Edition) Willa Cather 1933     …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 11/17/2025

Guided Seasonal Tour

… Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for their … Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of Red Cloud. More than that, Cather's memorable … success as a farm family, it also symbolizes the immigrant stories and rich multiculturalism that shaped the Great …
Posted: 08/23/2024
Last Updated: 01/03/2025

Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Image Image A Presentation at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley Special Events Saturday, Dec … which receives generous support from the Marion Park Lewis Foundation. Andrew Jewell , a highly respected Willa Cather … Virginia, contact Ann Romines at annrom3@verizon.net About Willa Cather's Virginia Willa Cather’s Virginia is …
Posted: 10/07/2024
Last Updated: 10/21/2024

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

… and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career and introduce … literature and correspondence remain the subject of scholarly inquiry. Her writing has been translated into more …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Historic Sites

… Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront … 1965. Efforts to save the depot were extensive, requiring relocation and a full restoration—the result of the railroad's … in 1891. The brick façade was added sometime after the Cathers joined the church in 1922. Today, Grace Episcopal …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Willa Cather Biography

…  in 1923, parts of  The Professor's House  in 1925, and  Obscure Destinies  stories in 1932, looked back to Cather's own …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail

… Fan Mail August 22, 2022 Our archives are home to not only Willa Cather’s letters, but to many of the letters that she … in California. Our collections also contain a sampling of Willa Cather’s own filing system. She kept certain letters, …  Elizabeth A. Shannon 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

… are listed with the corresponding issue in PDF format. Summer 1957 to Current 1.1  Summer 1957  FIRST ISSUE  … Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … 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

Meet Joanna Blitch: Illustrator of Special Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa

… the Bright Medusa,  Willa Cather's 1920 collection of eight stories, and her first publication with Alfred A. Knopf. Joanna A. Blitch of Greensboro, North Carolina, was selected from artists from around the country who submitted … Art in Winston-Salem. Those paintings, and that preserved home, gave me lots of vital clues about how people in …
Posted: 09/23/2020
Last Updated: 09/24/2020

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