2009-2010 Cather Book Club
The Willa Cather Foundation Book Club is a group of readers who gather to discuss the works and life of Willa Cather. Barbara Wiselogel will leads these discussions in the gallery of the Red Cloud Opera House, and the Willa Cather Foundation supplies complimentary coffee, tea, and desserts.
WHO: Anyone interested in reading great books
WHAT: Cather Book Club
WHEN: The third Wednesday of each month.; please see the schedule below
WHERE: Willa Cather Foundation, 413 North Webster, Red Cloud, 68970
WHY: Because Red Cloud hosts the largest living memorial to an author in the country, and because Willa Cather is one of America's foremost authors, inspiring generations of writers to come.
Schedule
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2009: A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich (One Book One Nebraska selection for 2009)
- OCTOBER 14, 2009: "Jack ~a~Boy"
- NOVEMBER 18, 2008: "The Strategy of the Were~Wolf Dog"
- DECEMBER: BREAK
- JANUARY 20, 2010: Lucy Gayheart
- FEBRUARY 17, 2010: "Tommy, the Unsentimental"
- MARCH 17, 2010: "The Prodigies"
- APRIL 14, 2010: "The Westbound Train: a Thirty Minute Sketch for Two People"
Sources:
Cather Foundation Bookstore 746-2653
Auld Public Library 746-3352
Red Cloud High School Library 746-2818
Auld~Doudna Public Library (Guide Rock) 257-4015
Blue Hill Public Library 756-2701
All short stories: http://cather.unl.edu/index.ss.html
2008-2009 Cather Book Club
The Willa Cather Foundation Book Club is a group of readers who gather to discuss the works and life of Willa Cather. Executive Director Cindy Bruneteau leads these discussions in the gallery of the Red Cloud Opera House, and the Willa Cather Foundation supplies complimentary coffee, tea, and desserts. This year, the group decided to do something different, and chose to read some of Cather's more obscure short stories.
WHO: Anyone interested in reading great books
WHAT: Cather Book Club
WHEN: The third Wednesday of each month.; please see the schedule below
WHERE: Willa Cather Foundation, 413 North Webster, Red Cloud, 68970
WHY: Because Red Cloud hosts the largest living memorial to an author in the country, and because Willa Cather is one of America's foremost authors, inspiring generations of writers to come.
Schedule
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2008: "The Willing Muse"
- OCTOBER 15, 2008: "The Bohemian Girl"
- NOVEMBER 19, 2008: "On the Divide" (Barbara Wiselogel as guest host)
- DECEMBER: BREAK
- JANUARY 21, 2009: "A Gold Slipper"
- FEBRUARY 18, 2009: "Consequences"
- MARCH 18, 2009: "Scandal"
- APRIL 15, 2009: "The Joy of Nelly Deane"
2007-2008 Cather Book Club
The 2007-2008 Cather Book Club will take a new turn in keeping with the planned 2008 Willa Cather Spring Conference theme, “Cather and her Contemporaries,” scheduled for June 5-7, 2008. The group will be combining selections from Cather’s works and selections from THE BIG READ, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.*
The Book Club will be led by Cather Foundation Education Director Cindy Bruneteau and Executive Director Betty Kort. We’ll meet in the GALLERY of the Cather Center at 4:30 p.m., usually on the second Wednesday of each month. Please join us!
WHO: Anyone interested in reading great books
WHAT: Cather Book Club
WHEN: Once a month— see schedule below
WHERE: Willa Cather Foundation, 413 North Webster, Red Cloud, 68970
WHY: Because Red Cloud hosts the largest living memorial to an author in the country, and because Willa Cather is one of America’s foremost authors, inspiring generations of writers to come.
Schedule
- SEPTEMBER 12, 2007: “A Wagner Matinee,” Willa Cather
- OCTOBER 10, 2007: Old Jules, Mari Sandoz, with special guest speaker Kira Gale
- NOVEMBER 28, 2007: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- DECEMBER 2007: Break
- JANUARY 9, 2008: The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
- FEBRUARY 13, 2008: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- MARCH 12, 2008: A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
- APRIL 9, 2008: One of Ours, Willa Cather
*THE BIG READ is an “initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. It is designed to revitalize the role of literary reading in American popular culture.” Communities across the country are invited to choose books on the BIG READ list. You can learn more about THE BIG READ by visiting http://www.neabigread.org/.
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