National Willa Cather Center News
Visit this page often for the latest Cather-related news as well as information about the Willa Cather Foundation's programs, collections, and events.
Supporting the Arts—and Your Business!
"Our sponsors represent some of the most passionate arts enthusiasts in our area. I love to see which shows they decide to sponsor each year, and how closely my predictions align with their interests."
Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts
Annotations From the Archives: Christmas in Red Cloud
Artist Karen Thurlow on Place and Memory
"I am grateful that this show can be shown in the town where I started my life since most of the pieces of art happened in this county. Thank you to everyone at the National Willa Cather Center for allowing me to show my art in the town where I spent so much of my growing up years"
—Karen Thurlow
Capturing Edem's Soul
"Remember, there is always more than one way to tell a story." —Edem K. Garro
Edem Garro's motto for her African-inspired Edem Soul Music is "encouraging and empowering the world through music, art and theatrical performances."
Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day
On November 11, we’ll honor our nation’s fallen soldiers on Veteran’s Day, the 70th year that the United States has commemorated the sacrifice made by hundreds of thousands of young men and women in military conflicts. Willa Cather would have known November 11 as Armistice Day, a day when the veterans of World War I were honored, and our collections are rich with museum and archival items that further our understanding of the World War I experience and Cather’s depictions of it in One of Ours.
Opportunities for Willa Cather Research & Scholarship
Two opportunities for Cather research and study in the foremost Willa Cather archives at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and at the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska!
The World War II Experience of Clarence O. Williams
Playwright Becky Boesen gleaned some of her inspiration for her play, Not Too Far Distant, from the Nebraska Stories of Humanity: Holocaust Survivors & WWII Veterans, Network Portal & Educational Website. The collection aims to centralize access to the history of Nebraska Holocaust survivors and WWII liberators of Nazi camps in a collection of searchable stories and digitized documents.