Willa Cather North by Northeast
Cather Related Site-Seeing North of New York City and East of Ohio


This set of 16 self-guided tours features locations important to Willa Cather. Each tour can be viewed on-line or printed, and most contain a description of the points of interest, local restaurants, and lodging.

Acknowledgements: These tours are prepared in conjunction with the International Cather Seminar 2003, held May 28 - June 2 at Bread Loaf, Vermont. Sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation. Edited by Sherrill Harbison. Web design by Sonja Barber. Published by the Cather Project, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2003.

Arlington, Vermont - Home of Dorothy Canfield Fisher, by Mark Madigan

Boston, Massachusetts - Part 1 - Back Bay, Part 2 - Beacon Hill, by Kevin Synnott

Burlington, Vermont - The Cather / Fisher Correspondence, by Sherrill Harbison

Cherry Valley, New York - Isabelle McClung’s Retreat, by Sherrill Harbison

Cos Cob, Connecticut - Cather Builds Her Connections, by Merrill Skaggs

Grand Manan, New Brunswick - The House that Cather Built, by Bob Thacker

Jaffrey, New Hampshire - In the Shelter of Monadnock: Jaffrey, New Hampshire, Cather's Favorite Retreat and Final Resting Place, by Joyce McDonald

On the Martyrs' Trail: Indians and Missionaries in the Champlain and Mohawk Valleys. Part 1 - Cather, Missionaries and History, Part 2: How to see the Champlain and Mohawk Valleys, with Dining and Accommodations, by Sherrill Harbison

Naulakha - Rudyard Kipling's Vermont Home, by Sherrill Harbison

New York City - Willa Cather in New York: The Greenwich Village Years. Part 1 - Willa Cather in New York, Part 2 - A Walking Tour of Greenwich Village, by Isabella Caruso

Plymouth, Vermont - Coolidge's Vermont White House of the 1920's, by Sherrill Harbison

Quebec and Montreal - Shadows of Early French Culture, by John Murphy

Ripton, Vermont - Bread Loaf Campus of Middlebury College, by Sherrill Harbison

St. Gaudens and Gardens - The Sculptor's Studio, by Sherrill Harbison

South Berwick, Maine - Home of Sarah Orne Jewett, by Terry Heller

1. Québec 2. St. Lawrence River 3. Montréal 4. Richelieu River 5. Isle La Motte 6. Burlington 7. Lake Champlain 8. Middlebury 9. Jogues Island

10. Lake George 11. Mohawk River 12. Auriesville 13. Cherry Valley 14. Albany 15. Hudson River 16. New York City 17. Cos Cob 18. Boston

19. Jaffrey 20. Connecticut River 21. Dummerston 22. Arlington 23. Cornish 24. Plymouth 25. South Berwick 26. Grand Manan