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Plain Views: Pastel and Photography
… of Solomon Butcher, Lohr’s portraits of women and children seek to portray the stark existence of early … Nebraska settlers are echoed in the enduring novels of Willa Cather. Cather observed in O Pioneers! , “We come and …
Posted: 08/12/2021
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
The Wonder of It All
… the human heart. Wallace is especially fond of staff and children at the Munroe Meyer Institute, as well as QLI and … Intercultural Senior Center. Programming at the National Willa Cather's Red Cloud Opera House is made possible with …
Posted: 06/07/2022
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
"She was nearly as strong as I": Being Woman in the Workplace
… Professionals for a special session on the life and work of Willa Cather. This is a great opportunity to learn more … near Black Hawk, eventually raising a large family of children on a farm. How have the lives of working women in …
Posted: 03/15/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Literary Societies—Annotations from the Archive
… returning to school, we always think of Frances Cather, Willa Cather's Mount Holyoke-educated aunt who came West to … have been a welcome respite from long days of managing the children and the farm, a way of recalling her old life. In … most generous gift. If you have materials related to the Cathers and their lives, we would love to talk with you! The …
Posted: 08/17/2020
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding
… the space to tell more of Red Cloud’s—and the National Willa Cather Center’s—story. The bank has always been a part … just a few—shared a social and historical context with the Cathers, “a kind of freemasonry,” as Willa Cather called it … in the hot coals, as was corn and potatoes. The women and children joined the men now at the yard and all had a good …
Posted: 12/16/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: On Writing Themes
… these afternoons, summer seems endless, but it is then that children are jarred from summer reveries and returned to school. In just such a moment, Willa Cather’s earliest known letter was written at the end … humanity.” The rest of the letter, which is a part of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial collection at the National …
Posted: 08/16/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Celebrating Juneteenth
… Celebrating Juneteenth June 18, 2021 In 2019, the National Willa Cather Center and many from the Cather community … Sapphira and the Slave Girl, which was based on the Cathers' own family experiences. During our visit, though, … and went to the Douglas School for African American children, as her mother had done. She is now one of the …
Posted: 06/16/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home
… and son of Charles Hugh Miner and Alfretta “Retta” Ayre, Willa Cather’s first cousin. It was Hugh's sisters, Carrie … family legacy, which is why she has decided to include the Willa Cather Foundation in her estate plan. “After seeing … history is something Jaydene has prioritized with her own children. In 2016, she traveled to Red Cloud with her …
Posted: 03/06/2023
Last Updated: 05/04/2023
What We're Grateful For: Staff Reflections
… Staff Reflections November 22, 2022 Some of our National Willa Cather Center staff reflect upon what they're grateful … Director Every year, especially when I am warmly greeted by children at the grocery store or when I hear about how much … and here I am, spending my days among the great works of Willa Cather, beautiful and diverse works of art, and an …
Posted: 11/21/2022
Last Updated: 12/22/2022
Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie
… Pollinator Week on the Prairie June 15, 2022 Visit the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie "We come and go, but the land … 98% of land has been converted to crop land while the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie is among the 2% that remains … one of our prairie exploration backpacks for each of your children or yourself, to further explore prairie wonders …
Posted: 06/26/2020
Last Updated: 07/19/2022