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Exhibit Tour
… offers a deep dive into three permanent exhibits that put Willa Cather's life and writing in context: All Aboard: … National Willa Cather Center. What are the most important events of Cather’s life? How did Red Cloud become the … depot in many of her works, such as in an early scene in My Ántonia . The Depot also figures prominently in “The …
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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder
… Image Special Events Saturday, Oct 24, 2026 | 6 - 7:15pm Saturday, Oct 24, … 7:45pm Saturday, Oct 24, 2026 | 7 - 8:15pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 … plots are woven into novels and short stories such as My Ántonia , The Song of the Lark , "The Sculptor's …
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Travel Through the Pages of American Literature
… drive between two major Federal Interstates while at the crossroads of two state highways (one a designated scenic … and education as a child, restored and open today with events and performances throughout the year. Our Special …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings in some of Cather’s most popular writings, … Willa Cather Bookstore will have an extensive offering of gifts and books at 15% off. Visitors on tour in December …
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Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong
… , made a low key visit to Red Cloud and the National Willa Cather Center last week. Wong and Giamatti, who joined filmmaker Alexander Payne for a weekend of events at Omaha's Film Streams, enjoyed tours of the Cather … , and a quiet stay in the Cather Second Home guest house. "My mother was a high school English teacher," Giamatti said. …
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Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather
… the Ames Writers Collective and Ames Public Library Special Events Wednesday, Feb 28, 2024 | 7 - 8pm Ames Public Library … acclaimed novels One of Ours , O Pioneers! , The Song of the Lark , and My Ántonia . In partnership with the Ames …
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Willa Cather Biography
… was as good as his word, since Cather's second book, The Troll Garden , a collection of stories, appeared from McClure, … containing both new stories and others revised from The Troll Garden , in 1920. It was followed by One of Ours , a …
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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday
… Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Poudre Libraries — … her prairie-plains novels ( O Pioneers! [1913], The Song of the Lark [1915], and especially My Ántonia [1918]) had …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas … town of Red Cloud are officially organized. 1872 — Charles Cather and Mary Virginia Boak marry on December 5 at the … Frances A. (Smith) Cather (the eventual uncle and aunt of Willa Cather) stake a homestead on the Divide, a broad …
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Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America
… Space, New York City • In Person & Livestreamed Special Events Wednesday, Sep 27, 2023 | 7 - 8:30pm Peter Jay Sharp … acclaimed novels One of Ours , O Pioneers! , The Song of the Lark , and My Ántonia . This special evening of short …
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