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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… Image Special Events Saturday, Oct 24, 2026 | 6 - 7:15pm Saturday, Oct 24, … into novels and short stories such as My Ántonia , The Song of the Lark , "The Sculptor's Funeral," and "The Affair at Grover …
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Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… and culture merge with the pleasures of a quiet country town and its prairie surroundings. To visit  Red Cloud  is to experience a town and entire landscapes, largely unchanged, as … sites and sounds that changed American literature. Take a detour from the scramble of urbanity and absorb the rolling …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Cather house is vividly described in Cather's novel,  The Song of the Lark , and short stories, “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best … 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

… , 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

… 2023 too, it has sponsored celebratory Cather 150 events held all over the country—Los Angeles, New York, … other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes for the …
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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

… home of the bride’s mother, Rachel Boak, in Virginia. 1873  — Charles Cather’s brother George and his wife Frances A. … 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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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

… To reach us during office hours, please call: (402) 746-2653 or email  info@willacather.org . Follow … along the Republican River for centuries—and where the displaced Pawnee Nation still considers to be the center of the … House (restored in 2003). It contains an archive, museum, gallery, and study center owned and operated by the Willa …
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