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Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration … the National Willa Cather Center and participate in guided town tours of six additional historic properties related to …
Posted: 07/21/2022
Last Updated: 09/06/2023
Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes
… Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie "We come and … roads "—just as Willa Cather described them in My Ántonia . In summer and early fall, you can also catch the …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 09/10/2023
Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation
… Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation January 23, 2019 After a several decades-long collaboration dedicated … that she selected and purchased still remains. The Ántonia Farmhouse (the Pavelka Farmstead) , about 15 miles … Red Cloud. Anna Pavelka was the inspiration for the novel My Ántonia, published in 1918. Cather had visited the …
Posted: 01/18/2019
Last Updated: 07/11/2022
Artist Tim Youd on Typing Willa Cather in Red Cloud
… the 100 Novels Project ? I've been a devoted reader my entire life. Sometimes I've read for inspiration, … observe Tim Youd in Omaha's Old Market as he retypes My Ántonia in May, in partnership with the Joslyn Art Museum . … to Alfred A. Knopf and Blanche Wolf Knopf, May 16, 1923: “The Oliver typewriter which Mr. Samuel Knopf ordered …
Posted: 04/20/2022
Last Updated: 07/11/2022
Tim Youd: Retyping Willa Cather
… 2022 | 12am - Friday, Apr 29, 2022 | 12am National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 … Faces," pp. 289-314 April 22 — Willa Cather Memorial Prairie (Miner House if inclement ): "Stupid Faces," pp. … Tim Youd Cristin Tierney Gallery "Typing a Novel About Vassar, Word for Word, As Art," The New York Times , …
Posted: 03/16/2022
Last Updated: 04/13/2022
Finding Aids
… Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska Subjects: settlement Willa Cather Silas Garber agriculture Webster … & Morgan 1947 Correspondence TEX-62-035 Note regarding gift Marsha Brockway 2012? Willard Crowell Collection Date … The Trail of the Lonesome Pine 1908 Cather Fraser, Robert Three Men and a Maid 1907 Mrs. C.F. Cather Funk and Wagnalls …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/14/2024
Join Our Team
… Join Our Team Career Opportunities at the National Willa Cather Center The Willa Cather Foundation—formerly the Willa … to all guests Conduct tours of the various properties and prairie preserve maintained by the Willa Cather Foundation … an exclusive opening to bring together stakeholders and key supporters for an overnight event to soft launch the …
Posted: 09/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/01/2024
Historic Sites
… Bank In 1889, the Farmers and Merchants Bank was erected by Silas Garber, a former Union Army officer who helped to found Red … of Nebraska from 1875–1879. Governor Garber and his wife, Lyra Wheeler Garber, lived in Red Cloud while Willa Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024
Book Club Resources
… Desert.” The Miner Family home, where the prototype for Ántonia Shimerda, Annie Sadilek, lived and the Catholic … O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark My Ántonia My Ántonia One of Ours One of Ours A Lost Lady A Lost Lady …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023