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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather
… forward to welcoming you! Book a Tour About the Restoration Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a …
Posted: 12/07/2022
Last Updated: 10/07/2024
Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … Conservation Center in Omaha, Nebraska. The project was supported by the State of Nebraska – Department of Economic … 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: 05/21/2024
Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration
… Romney and Winchester.” Indeed, Cather’s final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), is set near her birthplace just a few miles …
Posted: 10/07/2024
Last Updated: 10/21/2024
Finding Aids
… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/14/2024
Guided Seasonal Tour
… Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for their … Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of Red Cloud. More than that, Cather's memorable … success as a farm family, it also symbolizes the immigrant stories and rich multiculturalism that shaped the Great …
Posted: 08/23/2024
Last Updated: 08/23/2024
Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… June 7, 2023 A bronze sculpture of Willa Cather by artist Littleton Alston was dedicated and unveiled in … year of her Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska History Museum in Lincoln … —Watch a recording of the ceremony and scroll down for a gallery of images and more information— The Congressional …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024
Historic Sites
… John Pavelka, the couple who inspired characters in both My Ántonia and "Neighbour Rosicky," were married in this … and Irene Miner. The Miners inspired the Harling family of My Ántonia . Cather dedicated My Ántonia “to Carrie and … farm family in Nebraska. “We turned to leave the cave; Antonia and I went up the stairs first, and the children …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … are the primary attraction, in many ways Willa Cather the person looms large in the critical interest her works have … Nebraska P, 2000. Bohlke, Brent L. Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters . Lincoln: U of …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail
… the Archives: Fan Mail August 22, 2022 Our archives are home to not only Willa Cather’s letters, but to many of the … family struggled to survive, was the author of hundreds of stories and poems, the proceeds of which helped to keep the … Collection Kate M. Cleary: a Literary Biography with Selected Works , by Susanne George-Bloomfield …
Posted: 08/17/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023
Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… the Table of Contents provides easy access to specific articles and special features of each issue of … Miriam Mountford Progress Report p. 1 First Foreign Charter (Japan) by WCPM p. 1 Don Connors teaches a new course … p. 1 Conference Schedule p. 1 A Cornish Childhood p. 2 Gallery Holds "Feelings": Four Lucy Gayheart Paintings by …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023