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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… her life, struggled to write the story of her home state.  Sapphira and the Slave Girl  (1940) is of increasing interest to contemporary …
Posted: 05/23/2023
Last Updated: 11/12/2025

Willa Cather Foundation Collection Continues to Grow

… Image Willa Cather Foundation Collection Continues to Grow September 25, … of a family that figures importantly in Willa Cather’s life and work. And so it was that as President of the Board … and a new home at the National Willa Cather Center. Items saved, items treasured. I’ll always wonder about this happy …
Posted: 09/25/2017
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… Image Willa Cather writes in New Hampshire Annotations from the … she was a dedicated reader of her press, and that she often saved and sent home clippings for friends and family. … the advertising, the worse it is for me. It disturbs my life and my work too much." Sitting for a portrait was, …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023

Annotations from the Archive: The Death of G.P. Cather

… Image Annotations from the Archive: The Death of G.P. Cather June 20, 2022 The centenary of One of Ours , Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize–winner for fiction, allows us a chance to reflect on the life—and death—of Willa Cather’s first cousin, Grosvenor …
Posted: 06/20/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Support

… IRA Rollover Charitable IRA Rollover Volunteer Volunteer Opera House Sponsor Opera House Sponsor Conference Sponsor Conference Sponsor …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/02/2025

A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… later won a medal in an Austrian shooting competition.  “My parents worked and saved so that I could go to college … “Songs my Mother Taught Me” — Czech immigrants as in My Ántonia and Mr. Schimerda was a violinist in the Prague … Thank you! We look forward to your homecoming and to your gift of classic opera on the Red Cloud Opera House stage in …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Leroy Maruhn - Our Miriam Mountford Volunteer of the Year

… Owens’s mother and works as a tour guide at the National Willa Cather Center. Jen Schriner de Jager, on our facilities … Leroy grew up in the Holdrege area, but spent most of his life in Red Cloud. He was a well driller for over forty …
Posted: 01/06/2021
Last Updated: 04/26/2021

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