Restoring Willa Cather’s Attic Bedroom Wallpaper
Recently, Hilary LeFevere, Paper Conservator at our Ford Conservation Center, and Megan Griffiths, Technician, spent the week in Red Cloud, NE, working with the National ...
Willa Cather
What We Found
Flowers in the Attic
(Posted June 19, 2019)
The original wallpaper in the attic of Willa Cather's childhood home is an artifact with a rich historical and literary significance. Our ...
Marker Monday: Burlington Depot
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Built in 1897, the main section of Red Cloud’s Burlington Depot contained sleeping quarters on the second floor, and freight room, agent’s office, and ...
Marker Monday: Cather Childhood Home
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Built ca. 1876, this is the house in which Willa Cather lived from 1884 to 1890. She describes it in “Old Mrs. Harris,” in “The Best Years,” and in ...
Willa Cather’s Real-Life Ántonia on the Radio
By David L. Bristow
Ántonia Shimerda is perhaps Willa Cather’s most beloved fictional character, the namesake of her 1918 novel, My Ántonia.
Cather based Ántonia ...
Wallpaper Conservation at the Willa Cather Childhood Home
After spending the first nine years of her life in Virginia and another 18 months on a homestead in south central Nebraska, Willa Cather’s family settled in the nearby ...
Marker Monday: Catherland
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Here on the Divide between the Republican and the Little Blue lived some of the most courageous people of the frontier. Their fortunes and ...
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