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Willa Cather Biography
… 2023 too, it has sponsored celebratory Cather 150 events held all over the country—Los Angeles, New York, … other places found there too: the desert southwest of The Song of the Lark , The Professor's House , and Death Comes for the …
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 … later use this event in one of her most famous novels, My Antonia . 1882 — Red Cloud becomes a division point for the … need, sends $50 to Annie Sadilek Pavelka to be used for a gift. Annie uses the money to pay for taxes on her farm …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Annotations from the Archives: American Archives Month
… from the archives throughout the year, often centered on broad themes, rather than individual collections. … for both research and educational programs for our museum visitors. Our 2023 Humanities Interns —Nolan Bennett and … to welcome you to Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud , which should be completed in 2023. Our earliest …
Posted: 09/26/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023
Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes
… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the Willa … come and go, but the land is always here...” —O Pioneers! Visit Red Cloud and immerse yourself in the prairie settings … at rolsen@willacather.org or or (402) 746-2653. LODGING : We offer comfortable and unique historic lodging …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 09/10/2023
Annotations from the Archives: Homesteading and Home-Building in the Archives
… Willa Cather was the member of the Cather family who shared life in early Nebraska with a reading public, she … our new exhibition, Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud , in the lower level of the Farmers and Merchants Bank … His journal of a return trip to Virginia includes his visits to his boyhood home Willow Shade , old friends and …
Posted: 08/16/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023
The Collections at National Willa Cather Center
… are encouraged to make prior arrangements for their visit with the archivist . The archives are staffed from 9 … in all published and educational work. Our preferred citation, whatever your style sheet, is influenced by … The repository is the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Donating to the Collection The National …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 06/28/2023
The Visual Narratives of John Blake Bergers
… plains. Inspired by his first readings of Cather's work in 1975 and a later visit to Red Cloud, where he met Mildred …
Posted: 12/07/2020
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Business Papers
… prohibition on publication of Willa Cather’s letters expired, a wealth of new Willa Cather biographical material … farm was the worst looking piece of farm land between Red Cloud and Hastings.” Cather was particularly dismayed to … research into Cather’s business affairs, make plans to visit! The archives at the National Willa Cather Center are …
Posted: 07/20/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections
… materials that were central to our understanding of early Red Cloud and Willa Cather’s adolescence here, as well as her … people and places we can only guess about. For those who visit in person, the NWCC has provided a book to record any …
Posted: 02/25/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Emil Frei Windows Are Beautiful Inside—And Out!
… made. Though she postpones making selections, in a June 13 letter, Cather mentions to Mrs. Sherwood that she’s … roof on the church. It seems then, as now, the old church building was being improved and repaired! But we know from … Hospital administration by arriving for an unannounced tour. We can only conjecture about when memorial windows …
Posted: 12/15/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023