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Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home
… Miner grew up as the third generation in the J.L. Miner House, or the Harling House in My Ántonia . He was the grandson of the home’s … Foundation as a beneficiary in your estate plans, please contact Jeniffer Beahm, Development Associate, at …
Posted: 03/06/2023
Last Updated: 05/04/2023
Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… Image Image Special Events Thursday, Apr 27, 2023 | 7pm Discussion #1: My Ántonia As part of National Willa Cather … with acclaimed writer and biographer Benjamin Taylor! Join us in honoring Cather’s prolific writing career and … Nicky Billinger. If you did not receive her message, please contact her at nbillinger@willacather.org. For those who …
Posted: 03/28/2023
Last Updated: 04/27/2023
"A Walk in Her Footsteps" Weekend Tour Package
… sites and sounds that changed American literature. Take a detour from the scramble of urbanity and absorb the rolling prairie landscape in Red Cloud, Nebraska: the home of Willa Cather. Upon your arrival, you … ❧ Cather once remarked, “When I go about among little Nebraska towns (and the little towns, not the big cities, …
Posted: 09/18/2019
Last Updated: 03/21/2023
A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society
… small town in Nebraska that can claim one of the most famous authors in the world, so I’m happy to have the … of the Cather Legacy Society , Jay and Wade value the sustained impact that planned giving assures. “We know … or would like more information about doing so, please contact Jeniffer Beahm, Development Associate at …
Posted: 07/13/2016
Last Updated: 03/06/2023
Ongoing Historic Site Restoration & Campaign Updates
… Image Ongoing Historic Site Restoration & Campaign Updates April 22, 2021 … generous contributions to our Campaign for the Future , historic site restoration and preservation work has been … life, religion, and technology. In addition to making the sites more appealing to modern audiences, we will be able to …
Posted: 06/26/2020
Last Updated: 02/03/2023
Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… Miriam Mountford Title: Prototypes of Characters in My Ántonia Recognized at Spring Banquet AUTHOR: Victor P. Hass … 16.1 Winter 1972 Editor: Miriam Mountford Cather Horne Named National Landmark p. 1 What's New p. 1 Finances: … 69 Opera House Schedule (inside back cover) Preserve the Treasures (inside back cover) The 49th Annual Willa Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023
Our New Archives Intern: Chris Wolak
… of the National Willa Cather Center. I have been curious about what Tracy’s day-to-day work is like and how it has … Are you interested in becoming an Archives Intern? Contact Tracy Tucker, Director of Collections & Curation, …
Posted: 10/24/2022
Last Updated: 01/15/2023
Joseph Kyle’s Last Visit Leads to Unexpected Bequest
… This summer, we received notice of an unexpected and generous bequest from Dr. Joseph D. ‘Joe’ Kyle. The news came from … and the Army Language Schools, where he studied German and Russian. Joe was recalled to duty during the Berlin Wall … Foundation as a beneficiary in your estate plans, please contact Ashley Olson, Executive Director, at …
Posted: 09/27/2022
Last Updated: 12/20/2022
Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker
… backgrounds, such as prairie botany and gardening skills, photography and graphic design, and you have worked as a … you remember that we were first called the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, and so a great many of Red Cloud’s oldest … keep things—her fan mail is a great example—but living in small New York spaces, keeping must have been hard. I think …
Posted: 10/24/2022
Last Updated: 11/22/2022
Planning Underway for Hotel Garber
… the historic Potter-Wright building next door to the Willa Cather Foundation’s Farmers and Merchants Bank, the hotel … and historic sites, the town, the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie and other scenic places Cather loved. The design … both charitable donations and equity investments. To learn more or to help support the project, please contact …
Posted: 09/23/2020
Last Updated: 09/23/2022