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Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… the U.S. Capitol, June 7, 2023 Image A bronze statuette of Willa Cather by Littleton Alston Willa Cather Statue Dedication & … Library from Glenda J. Pierce, member of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors, and Jeff Kirkpatrick; it will …
Posted: 09/27/2023
Last Updated: 10/06/2023

Willa Cather Biography

… Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but … other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… Image Willa's Cradle, by Betty Kort Image Out in the Kitchen, by … - Saturday, Nov 4, 2023 | All day In 2007, photographer and Willa Cather Foundation executive director Betty Kort created …
Posted: 07/14/2023
Last Updated: 08/30/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … Jay Yost p. 31  TITLE: Cather and Her Stars: Negotiating a Culture of Celebrity in the 1890s  AUTHOR: Michael Schueth … p. 45  2007 Cather Spring Conference Highlights Cather and Material Culture p. 48  Director of Education and Archives …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Cather Sesquicentennial

… of Events Ongoing Events The National Endowment for the Humanities Big Read of My Ántonia : September 1, 2024-June … member of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors. FREE. December 7 – Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A … 2023 Schedule of Events Feb 17 — Kearney Library, Kearney, Nebraska: 12:00 p.m. — Rachel Olsen, Director of Education & …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 12/31/2024

71st Annual Spring Conference Schedule

… program is forthcoming.   Thursday, June 4 Time Event and Location 1:00 PM Welcome and Opening Plenary: "Cancer and … Nebraska Cultural Endowment.  Friday, June 5 Time Event and Location 9:00 AM Scholarship Announcements and Reading of … Cultural Endowment. Saturday, June 6 Time Event and Location 8:00 AM Coffee and Kolache - Red Cloud Opera House …
Posted: 04/27/2026
Last Updated: 05/14/2026

Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… Travel Through the Pages of American Literature Discover Willa Cather and Red Cloud "I'm not exaggerating, Carrie, when I … arrival, you are immediately immersed in the natural and material world that inspired the Pulitzer Prize winner’s …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/20/2026

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials related … Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, historic photographs, art and decorative arts, journals, and rare … Pen holder     Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-1 Small metal purse     Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-2 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years  Cather's essay for the Nation still resonates September 5, … spanned from 1922-24 featuring different authors writing about 48 states. In 2003, John Leonard wrote in the Nation , … than I do, are satisfied with my presentation of it.”   [Willa Cather Papers, 1899-1949, in the Clifton Waller …
Posted: 09/05/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… of the Auld Library  and the purchase of books. Charles Cather was elected the first president of the library board. … what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is significant; … valued literature and story. Willa Cather talked often about the influences of the things she read, and she …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/11/2023

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