National Willa Cather Center Will Continue Legacy of Prolific Nebraska Writer

National Willa Cather Center Will Continue Legacy of Prolific Nebraska Writer

June 14, 2017

Article by Jack Williams, NET News

Downtown Red Cloud isn’t very big, so it’s hard to miss a stretch of two-story, red brick storefronts known by locals as “The Moon Block”. They’re front and center and a big part of the downtown area’s history. Now they’re also home to the new National Willa Cather Center.   

Tom Gallagher is an officer of the Willa Cather Foundation and its past president. He’s also a self-described fanboy of the author who grew up in Red Cloud and became famous in the early 20th century for her novels about frontier life.  

“The effect of reading Cather when you’ve got some mileage on you the way I do is entirely different from the effect that she had when you read that same work as a teenager,” Gallagher said. “There’s a depth to the work that was always in there waiting for you to discover, waiting for you to catch up to it"...

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