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2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference
… Image 2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference March 13, 2014 Mapping Literary … In O Pioneers! and My Ántonia , Cather was the first American novelist to treat the Plains of Nebraska as … Cather mapped many other literary landscapes: the Southwest in three novels, colonial Quebec in Shadows on the …
Posted: 09/11/2014
Last Updated: 09/11/2014
Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House
… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not exaggerating, … beautiful cities in Europe where I used to love to go. " —Willa Cather, in a letter to childhood friend, Carrie Miner … The house—now owned and operated by the Willa Cather Foundation—is a retreat for guests as it was for Willa …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/01/2024
Cather Sesquicentennial
… NE Feb 28 — University of Montana Lit 494 Capstone, Tracy Tucker, Director of Collections & Curation, to guest lecture … 9 — Cathedral Arts Project discusses One of Ours with Tracy Tucker , Director of Collections & Curation, 7:00 p.m. …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 06/28/2024
Cather Legacy Society
… Cather Legacy Society A Planned Gift With Lasting Impact Image Mary Vaughan: Why She Joined the Cather Legacy Society A comprehensive estate plan takes … the people, places, and causes you care about. Joining the Cather Legacy Society is an excellent way for you to leave a …
Posted: 01/17/2023
Last Updated: 04/02/2024
Making a Place: A Long History of Red Cloud
… Willa Cather Center's founder, Mildred Bennett. More About the Project One of Red Cloud’s most arresting … THIS EXHIBIT Exhibit Sponsor Benefits Invitation to the welcome reception. Commemorative exhibit bookmark. Your name … the deadline will be recognized on the mobile app. More About Our Reinterpretation Strategy This exhibit is part of …
Posted: 07/18/2023
Last Updated: 04/02/2024
Conservation of Willa Cather's Attic Bedroom Wallpaper
… Image Conservation of Willa Cather's Attic Bedroom Wallpaper Flowers in her "Rose … by the Willa Cather Foundation in 1960. It can be visited by guided tour from the National Willa Cather … would later write the bedroom description, and a papering experience, into The Song of the Lark (1915) when describing …
Posted: 07/02/2019
Last Updated: 04/01/2024
Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience
… Image Image Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the … Abbie Loomis was thirteen years old when she discovered Willa Cather. Her mother was a voracious reader, and My … to make history come alive for people.” This work of the Foundation is of vital importance to Loomis, who allocated a …
Posted: 09/08/2023
Last Updated: 09/08/2023
Organization History
… early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small group of Red Cloud citizens, interested individuals, … Cather, great woman, great literary artist, who once was one of ours and now belongs to the great world and to time, … Sites and the collection became known as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection. The Foundation later assumed …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023
Cather Weekend on Governors Island
… make her famous, she made a mark as a poet. Her first book, April Twilights (1903), was a collection of poetry and her poems … and expanded her first book in a 1923 edition entitled April Twilights and Other Poems. This presentation by Cather …
Posted: 08/01/2017
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Annotations from the Archive: The Death of G.P. Cather
… Image Annotations from the Archive: The Death of G.P. Cather June 20, 2022 The centenary of One of Ours , Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize–winner for fiction, allows us … enthusiasts, and others curious about our Willa Cather Foundation Collections & Archives at the National WIlla …
Posted: 06/20/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023