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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

… Image This event is SOLD OUT! Special Events Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 | 6 - 7:15pm Saturday, Oct 18, … 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

… moved to Nebraska from Virginia in 1883. Her final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. …
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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 … Streams, enjoyed tours of the Cather historic sites, the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie , and a quiet stay in 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

… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in  Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
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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 … We are in the midst of the centenaries of these books and about to celebrate the sesquicentennial of Cather’s birth. …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… uncle and aunt of Willa Cather) stake a homestead on the Divide, a broad stretch of land between the Little Blue and … short story to be published in a national magazine, “On the Divide,” appears in  Overland Monthly . Annie Sadilek …
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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

… life. Cather was the first American writer to use the Great Plains as a detailed setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the American … in Cather's work—in particular  O Pioneers!  (1913),  The Song of the Lark  (1915),  My Ántonia  (1918),  One of Ours …
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