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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour … On December 7, Cather’s 150th birthday will be fêted with guided holiday tours—including of the Childhood Home—and a …
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Serena's Album

… crowned her “queen of the human heart.” We can’t venture an identity for Addie’s favorite composer “Hattie Baker.” Right …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials … Jeremiah Smith   1793 Ephemera OBJ-50-1000-008 "The Truth About Horace" Poem Written Inside Book Cover Eugene Field   … Lincoln   1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton Honorary Degree     Watercolor sketch …
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Guided Seasonal Tour

… Image Guided Seasonal Tour Ántonia's Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for their 2024 Big Read initiative. In partnership with Arts Midwest, the …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Romney and Winchester.” Indeed, Cather’s final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), is set near her birthplace just a few miles …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career and introduce … literature and correspondence remain the subject of scholarly inquiry. Her writing has been translated into more …
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Historic Sites

… thing I miss most is the opera house.” —Willa Cather, 1929 Moon Block Adjoining the Opera House is the Moon Block, named for its original investor, Michigan Senator John Moon. The Moon Block is home to the National Willa Cather …
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Willa Cather Biography

… House , and  Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny enclave of French culture that was Quebec City at the … of a more penetrating sense of human life and human destiny. Willa Cather read and thought a great deal during …
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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

… Leader, 1897) p. 1  AUTHOR: Willa Cather  TITLE: Great Forking Trees (from a 1921 Cather Interview in … (Four Play Reviews from the Pittsburgh Leader) p. 1  "An American Citizen" p. 1  "Nethersole's Carmen" p. 2  "John … Dr. Wilbur K. Bennett  (April 13, 1913 - Dec.7, 1991) p. 50  Also in this issue:  Opera House Accepted as Gift from …
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