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Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights

… Image Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights April 8, 2025 Though Willa Cather is known … published seven of her poems in the Home Monthly , and sold others to national publications like Lippincott’s , Harper’s …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… also marked the 100th anniversary of her Pulitzer Prize for  One of Ours , as well as publication centenaries of  A … matching funds provided by the  Willa Cather Foundation’s  Campaign for the Future .  Book clubs and teachers around the country are …
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Finding Aids

… and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, … journals, and rare book collections, as well as items belonging to Willa Cather like letters, clothing, jewelry, … to explore individual objects in the collection! For a broad view of the collections, finding aids are available for …
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Willa Cather Biography

… from and references to Cather’s own letters. Thus without question, the complex brilliance Skaggs saw in Cather during … more than that, of herself as a person. The character in question is the book's antagonist, Clement Sebastian, who … help secret Nancy, the enslaved girl, away from slavery to freedom in Canada. It concludes in a way reminiscent of …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States … Register of Historic Places and open year-round for guided tours. Winter 1883 to 1884  — Willa Cather attends a … Cather’s brother James Cather is born. Silas Garber begins building the Farmers and Merchants Bank in downtown Red …
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Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration

… The Library is pleased to partner with the National Willa Cather Center to commemorate Willa Cather’s 150th birthday. This monumental year for … Capote’s unfinished reminiscence of his chance meeting with Willa Cather at the New York Society Library in 1942. Light …
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The Bel Canto Duo: Four Cather Tableaux

… Reserve Tickets The Bel Canto Duo's performance of Four Cather Tableaux will include original compositions inspired by passages from Willa Cather's A Lost Lady , "Nebraska: The End of the First … Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. About the Artists The Bel Canto Duo was founded in 2016 by …
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68th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Spring Conference Thursday, Jun 1, 2023 | 9am - Saturday, Jun 3, 2023 | 9pm National Willa … Theatre Library Association. She curated the 6-disk set  Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers , honored with a Special …
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Bibliography

… Image Bibliography The Writings of Willa Cather   Novels Alexander's Bridge  1912 O Pioneers!  1913 The Song of the Lark  1915 My Ántonia  1918 …
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Cather Weekend on Governors Island

… her own words. We begin with a curious young girl on the plains of Nebraska, embark on her quest to establish herself … and Other Poems . 2:30 p.m. – Selected Readings from The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark (1915) is the story of … century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative …
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