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National Willa Cather Center Hours & Directions

… (70 miles north of Red Cloud) The airport offers Budget and Thrifty car rental services. Take South Highway 281 … northeast of Red Cloud) The Lincoln airport offers Avis, Budget, Hertz, National, Alamo, and Enterprise rental car … to K 181 North, and continue north into Red Cloud. Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/22/2025

"Willa Cather and the Counterculture" - Registration Closed

… of its historic and arts offerings, while learning about Cather’s time in New Mexico. We’ll discuss and share from … who had his own vision of the counterculture lifestyle. “Willa Cather and the Counterculture” explores Cather’s … David Harrell. In Vol. 33 of the Willa Cather Newsletter & Review. pp. 4-8.  …
Posted: 04/03/2020
Last Updated: 10/16/2024

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

… of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary Hall, U.S. Capitol Willa … in 2019, as one of two new sculptures that represent Nebraska. The installation ceremony occurred exactly six … for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska History Museum in Lincoln and at the National Willa …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… are frequent. The National Willa Cather Center each June sponsors a thematic spring conference—the theme of the 2023 … southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny … to and from the depot south of town. The Red Cloud Opera House , now restored and the offices and performance …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … not proclaimed as being bound for lofty things by the local newspaper. Only sixteen years old, Cather enrolls at the … by Knopf. 1936  — Knopf publishes Cather’s only book of essays,  Not Under Forty . In the book’s introduction, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… if they had never happened before,’ wrote Willa Cather in O Pioneers ! and she practiced what she preached. Miss Cather …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

59th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Jun 5, 2014 | 12am - Saturday, Jun 7, 2014 | 12am The Willa Cather Foundation 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE … both within Cather studies and beyond. From her earliest fiction, Cather was closely attuned to the world around her, … on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie 5:30 p.m. Barbecue and music at the Burlington Depot, featuring Formerly Three of …
Posted: 07/28/2014
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Literary Landscapes: Environments and Ecosystems  The Willa Cather Foundation is pleased to welcome Clay … both within Cather studies and beyond. From her earliest fiction, Cather was closely attuned to the world around her, … on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie 5:30 p.m. Barbecue and music at the Burlington Depot, featuring Formerly Three of …
Posted: 05/13/2014
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… access to specific articles and special features of each issue of the Review since its first publication in 1957. … 1964  Editor: Miriam Mountford  Aim and Interpretation of Catherland p. 1  Plow is a Symbol of Cather Museum p. 1  … 23.1  Spring 1979 Editor: Bonita English  Shadows on the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image 2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference March 13, 2014 Mapping Literary … In O Pioneers! and My Ántonia , Cather was the first American novelist to treat the Plains of Nebraska as … Cather mapped many other literary landscapes: the Southwest in three novels, colonial Quebec in Shadows on the …
Posted: 09/11/2014
Last Updated: 09/11/2014

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