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Making a Place Exhibit Opening!
… Cloud invites visitors to explore Willa Cather's novel A Lost Lady through topics that are both present and absent in … life and as portrayed as Captain and Mrs. Forrester in A Lost Lady ; town-making and homesteading; banking and the …
Posted: 01/29/2024
Last Updated: 02/21/2024
Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal
… the end result is a logbook of objects and their condition, location, and statistics. But those data points only tell a …
Posted: 02/21/2024
Last Updated: 02/21/2024
Finding Aids
… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Jeremiah Smith 1793 Ephemera OBJ-50-1000-008 "The Truth About Horace" Poem Written Inside Book Cover Eugene Field … Checks from City National Bank, Lincoln 1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 02/17/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering, O Pioneers! and My Á ntonia , but … other places found there too: the desert southwest of The Song of the Lark , The Professor's House , and Death Comes …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Guided Town Tour
… of Nebraska and prototype for Captain Forrester in A Lost Lady . Restored in the early days of the Willa Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Celebrating Cather at 150: A Guided Holiday Tour
… at the conclusion of the tour A copy of Cather's A Lost Lady, her 1923 novel about a woman who captivates a once …
Posted: 08/23/2023
Last Updated: 12/08/2023
Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading
… biography, and criticism, and we are honored to welcome professors Melissa Homestead, Julie Olin-Ammentorp, and … in May 2020. His previous memoir, The Hue and Cry at Our House , received the 2018 Los Angeles Times/Christopher … Willa Cather: The Critical Conversation (2020, Camden House). Her work on Cather has appeared in Great Plains …
Posted: 10/04/2023
Last Updated: 12/05/2023
Willa Cather Timeline
… home of the bride’s mother, Rachel Boak, in Virginia. 1873 — Charles Cather’s brother George and his wife Frances A. … for the character Thea Kronborg in her next novel, The Song of the Lark . Cather visits Nebraska. 1915 — Cather publishes …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration
… The Library is pleased to partner with the National Willa Cather Center to commemorate Willa Cather’s 150th birthday. … and more than 20 countries. Located in Willa Cather’s hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, the Center is an award-winning … Historic Landmark. Guided town, country, and prairie tours provide visitors with an immersive place-based …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… #4: Death Comes for the Archbishop As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s 150th year, we are pleased to conclude a … Edward F. Albee Foundation. Chasing Bright Medusas , his biography of Willa Cather, is due from Viking Press in 2023. …
Posted: 04/24/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023