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Experience America’s Literary Legacy

… Red Cloud with a fresh idea of Willa Cather and the Great Plains. Come witness the sites and sounds that changed … is her childhood bedroom and its original wallpaper in The Song of the Lark  or the Miner House that became the Harling …
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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… 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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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

… the adaption of David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of  John Adams . …
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Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather

Image Presented in partnership with the Ames Writers Collective and Ames Public Library Special Events Wednesday, Feb 28, 2024 | 7 - 8pm Ames Public Library 515 Douglas Avenue Ames , IA 50010 United States For Further Information Join us for an evening of …
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Willa Cather Biography

… southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny … her time on the Divide, Cather attended a one-room school house, but Charles Cather was not suited to be a prairie … to and from the depot south of town. The Red Cloud Opera House , now restored and the offices and performance space …
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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 — …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… 1905  — Cather’s first collection of short stories,  The Troll Garden , is published by S. S. McClure. 1906  — Cather … Sharon. Chronology.  Early Novels and Stories : The Troll Garden, O Pioneers! the Song of the Lark, My Antonia, …
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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

… that follow for contact information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, … setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the … , Rissell Ventura, NTV ABC, May 28, 2022 Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a 501(c)(3) …
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