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Experience America’s Literary Legacy
… Image Experience America’s Literary Legacy Discover Willa Cather and Red Cloud "I'm not exaggerating, Carrie, when I confide to … of a quiet country town and its prairie surroundings. To visit Red Cloud is to experience a town and entire …
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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder
… Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 | 7 - 8:15pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … for which he has always tried to find bodies." ~ Willa Cather, in a 1925 interview with Flora Merrill THIS EVENT IS … characters and evocative descriptions of the Nebraska prairie they inhabit. Critics characterize her work as …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood … Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop , Willa Cather … is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. Events took place across the country throughout 2023-2024 to …
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Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong
… who joined filmmaker Alexander Payne for a weekend of events at Omaha's Film Streams, enjoyed tours of the Cather … and shared that he was currently reading Cather's The Song of the Lark and had particularly enjoyed Death Comes for the …
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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
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … seven children raised by Charles and Mary Virginia Cather. Cathers had been in the area since the 1700s, and Back … a prominent writer herself, and the three made a well-known visit with A. E. Housman, then a poet Cather much admired. …
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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday
… Image Willa Cather, c. 1912 Image Talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, President, Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Poudre Libraries — … and cemented the reputation her prairie-plains novels ( O Pioneers! [1913], The Song of the Lark [1915], and …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — … in an area near Back Creek, Virginia. Also joining the Cathers at Willow Shade is Willa’s maternal grandmother … Red Cloud, the town’s third train depot, built in 1897 and visited by Cather on return trips, is now on the National …
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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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Press Room
… for the latest newsworthy information about our activities, events, and announcements. Please browse the sub-sections … in Cather's work—in particular O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), My Ántonia (1918), One of Ours (1922), A …
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