Event Archives
Virtual Author Series: Garrett Peck
Deepen your understanding of one of Willa Cather’s most celebrated novels! In The Bright Edges of the World, Garrett Peck explores how Cather’s travels to the Southwest inspired her writing. She visited the Southwest six times between 1912 and 1926, and from these journeys came three novels, the last of which was Death Comes for the Archbishop.
The Colten Wyatt Band
Willa Cather, American Voice
On Friday, March 6, at 4:00 pm, Peter Cipkowski, literary historian at UCLA and President of the Board of Governors of the National Willa Cather Center, visits the Coffee House to speak about legendary author Willa Cather.
Virtual Author Series: Brad Bigelow
Delve into the life and work of an important Willa Cather scholar with the return of our virtual author series! Brad Bigelow will share passages from his new book, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts, a biography that chronicles Virginia Faulkner’s career as a promising writer once compared to Dorothy Parker, who eventually returns to her hometown of Lincoln and becomes an editor who is free to nurture what author Timothy Schaffert calls “mad devotion to Willa Cather.”
Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains
Cornelia Murr
Through Darkness to Light
They left during the middle of the night—often knowing only that moss grows on the north side of trees. An estimated 100,000 enslaved people chose to embark on a journey in search of freedom between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865. They moved in constant fear of being killed or recaptured, returned, and beaten as an example of what would happen to others who might choose to run. Under the cover of darkness, “fugitives” traveled roughly twenty miles each night, traversing rugged terrain while enduring all the hardships that Mother Nature could bring to bear.
