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O Pioneers!
… Image © Tracy Sanford Tucker for the National Willa Cather Center A University of … Tickets UNL Opera presents Tyler Goodrich White’s O Pioneers! based on Willa Cather’s 1913 novel--her first …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023
O Pioneers!
… of the people who settled it. Cather's heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie … But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of …
Posted: 05/03/2023
Last Updated: 07/17/2023
Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … author’s 150th birthday. The site closed on August 15, 2022 to facilitate the first comprehensive … interpretation; a climate control system and a new roof and foundation. Enclosure of the attic space and extensive …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 04/25/2024
Cather Sesquicentennial
… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are … Littleton Alston's statuette of Willa Cather, a recent gift to the library where it will be permanently displayed … from Cather's fiction, journalism, and letters written or set in Pittsburgh between 1896 and 1929 • Birthday cookies …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 04/19/2024
School Field Trips
… Home & More The National Willa Cather Center offers customizable experiences for students of all ages and grade … the current exhibit on display in the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery. Take part in an archival learning activity. … staff. Not sure how to get started planning your visit? Contact Rachel Olsen, director of education and engagement …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/07/2024
Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska History Museum in Lincoln and at the National Willa Cather Center’s … said in an interview, “I had searched for books telling about the beauty of the country I loved, its romance, and … 7, 2023, at 11:00 a.m ET. A special thanks to Willa Cather Foundation member Peg O’Dea Lippert, for conceiving the idea …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 04/03/2024
One-Day Bus Tour to the National Willa Cather Center
… DEADLINE HAS PASSED. PLEASE CALL (402) 746-2653 TO INQUIRE ABOUT AVAILABILITY. Join Board of Governors hosts Ruth Haley …
Posted: 03/05/2024
Last Updated: 04/03/2024
Group Tours
… Group Tours Visit Red Cloud—Our unique small town on the prairie and meet Willa Cather, Nebraska’s foremost citizen and author of O Pioneers! , My Ántonia & Death Comes for the Archbishop …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 02/11/2024
Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather
… Image Presented in partnership with the Ames Writers Collective and Ames Public Library Special Events Wednesday, Feb 28, 2024 | 7 - 8pm Ames Public Library 515 Douglas Avenue Ames , IA 50010 United States For Further … and the critically acclaimed novels One of Ours , O Pioneers! , The Song of the Lark , and My Ántonia . In …
Posted: 01/04/2024
Last Updated: 02/05/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… Image George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather. Photographic … publish there; it serialized her first novel, Alexander's Bridge , in 1912. Once she had completed her second novel …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024