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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation … stabilization and eventual restoration and programming.  ABOUT THE BIRTHPLACE The Cather birthplace remains a …
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

… an appointment or learn more, please contact archivist Tracy Tucker at ttucker@willacather.org or fill out a Collections Access …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023

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

… The Sayra Cather Wagner Collection contains a number of photographs of G. P. Cather unavailable elsewhere and the …
Posted: 06/20/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Support

… uses the depot as a setting in many of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and … Pavelka Farmstead to its period of significance. Readers of My Ántonia will recall the farmstead and the fruit cave from …
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 … numerous coincidences of Cather's character, ‘Thea’ with my own.” Sarah knew Mildred Bennett in Red Cloud, who was … English was her high school music teacher.  “He encouraged my singing when I thought it was nothing special. I was …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Leroy Maruhn - Our Miriam Mountford Volunteer of the Year

… Janet Maruhn. Janet is Jim Owens’s mother and works as a tour guide at the National Willa Cather Center. Jen Schriner … a volunteer, and with his tractor he tills gardens around town. Here at the National Willa Cather Center, Leroy has … alongside founder Mildred Bennett, devised the first guided tours of Red Cloud and Catherland and was first editor of …
Posted: 01/06/2021
Last Updated: 04/26/2021

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