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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop , Willa Cather has become known as one of …
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Finding Aids

… York Herald Tribune 1933 Clipping TX-50-1000-054 Review of  April Twilights Pittsburg Gazette 1903 Clipping TX-50-1000-055 … notes. Most entries are in Cather’s hand; a few are in another hand, possibly Edith Lewis’s. Language:  The material …
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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 …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Image Image A Presentation at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley … the Shenandoah Valley also includes access to the museum's galleries and gardens. Walk-ins welcome as space permits. …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … not find them. And so I wrote O Pioneers! .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost …
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Historic Sites

… Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront … 1965. Efforts to save the depot were extensive, requiring relocation and a full restoration—the result of the railroad's … in 1891. The brick façade was added sometime after the Cathers joined the church in 1922. Today, Grace Episcopal …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Sapphira  revolves around the successful attempt to help secret Nancy, the enslaved girl, away from slavery to …
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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 …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … Visitors p. 1  Staff Activities p. 1  Publications p. 2  Gifts and Mail Bag p. 2  Future Plans p. 2  … 34  Photographs of guests at the Second Cather Home p. 35  Holiday gift listing p. 37  Summary of International Cather …
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Meet Joanna Blitch: Illustrator of Special Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa

… the Bright Medusa,  Willa Cather's 1920 collection of eight stories, and her first publication with Alfred A. Knopf. Joanna A. Blitch of Greensboro, North Carolina, was selected from artists from around the country who submitted … Art in Winston-Salem. Those paintings, and that preserved home, gave me lots of vital clues about how people in …
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