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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about … restoration in more than fifty years.  A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa Cather Childhood … Willa Cather Bookstore will have an extensive offering of gifts and books at 15% off. Visitors on tour in December …
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Serena's Album

… “Bananas,” reflects the strain of adolescent humor running through the album. Right Lillian Shepard’s husband Harry … with Modern Improvements.” Right If privileged to make a journey, Mrs. Merriam would choose California. She … Arden.” Notice that her taste in composers runs to the literary. Right In the years after Aunt Cinnie signed …
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Finding Aids

… notes for book and personal Association of Adventist Forums newsletters Copyedited pages for index and sources Box … Skjelver   Box 23—Bennett Papers Business correspondence Newsletters from WCPM and other nonprofit organizations WCPM … program, 1972 Religious tracts Photocopies of articles, newsletters, fliers Box 37—Bennett Typescripts  Box 38—WCPM …
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Guided Seasonal Tour

… Image Guided Seasonal Tour Ántonia's Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was … Black Hawk, Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of Red Cloud. More than that, Cather's memorable …
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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 …
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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 …
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Historic Sites

… dedicated to an American author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the … to sixteen. The house is described in detail in the short stories “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best Years,” and … Cather’s attic bedroom retains the wallpaper she selected while she worked in Dr. Henry Cook's drugstore. In …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … published a review essay focused on nine new Cather-related volumes in a special issue of  Modern Fiction Studies  on Cather's work. This critical interest in Cather …
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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 …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents Table of Contents This … Preservations and Restoration p. 3  Dedication of Cather Childhood Home p. 3  Gifts p. 4  … Commemorative Stamp p. 3  New Law p. 3  Letters from Our Friends p. 3  Spring Conference--1972 p. 4  …
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