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Guided Town Tour
… Guided Town Tour Driving Tour Guests should have their own … and plan to follow a tour guide from site to site. Tours last approximately 90 minutes. Adults: $25.00 … - $10.00 Children: (5 & under) – Free Book a Tour Willa Cather Childhood Home 245 N Cedar Street The Cather family …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Historic Sites
… an American author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the Cather family … restored exterior finishes, but will also offer accessible tours for those with mobility limitations. “When she went … removing redundant facilities from major lines. To save the building from destruction, it was moved from its original …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/16/2024
Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Exterior of the restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Image Earliest image of the Willa … 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … America’s canonical authors. The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings in some of Cather’s most …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 04/25/2024
Join Our Team
… at the National Willa Cather Center The Willa Cather Foundation—formerly the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial—is a … Red Cloud Hotel, LLC, Board of Managers Status: Full-Time About Hotel Garber: Hotel Garber is a boutique hotel under … operational budget, construction documents and renderings, staffing model, and heritage tourism survey. Inform possible …
Posted: 09/07/2023
Last Updated: 04/25/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… in American fiction—with Melville, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Ellison, Bellow, Morrison.” Yes, though Cather deserves to precede Hemingway on this list. Concluding her fine study of Willa … Cather. On April 24, 1947, Cather died from cancer. A private funeral was held in New York, and a memorial service …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas … homestead claims near a site that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871 — In Silas Garber’s … Register of Historic Places and open year-round for guided tours. Winter 1883 to 1884 — Willa Cather attends a …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
18th International Willa Cather Seminar
… , NY 10011 United States "Bright and Beautiful and Alive": Willa Cather's New York Intersections We hope you will make … the Eugene Lang College of New School in Greenwich Village, teaching classes in memoir, cultural criticism, and race and … Seminar invites proposals for papers on diverse themes, works, and people evoked by Cather’s early twentieth century …
Posted: 06/05/2019
Last Updated: 06/22/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection
… thirty original oil paintings by John Blake Bergers (1931-2011), a professional artist who dedicated his life to … Harris joined four hundred other Cather enthusiasts for bus tours of Webster County literary sites, visits to St. … an Omaha benefit performance “for the Cather Foundation building fund,” Bennett wrote. The performance would have to …
Posted: 10/20/2021
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding
… conclude restoration work on the Farmers and Merchants Bank building, we now undertake the work of reinterpreting the … The bank has always been a part of our guided town tour, but the renovated spaces will soon allow our guests to … short a time. From David Helvern’s letter to the editor, 1875: I think [an aid organization] in every township or road …
Posted: 12/16/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Annotations from the Archive: Emil Frei Windows Are Beautiful Inside—And Out!
… is Cather’s letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood, sent on June 7, 1928. Written just three months after her father’s death, … 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