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Experience America’s Literary Legacy
… Carrie, when I confide to you that I would rather go home to Red Cloud than to any of the beautiful cities in … Red Cloud, Nebraska is not just a destination. It’s a place where literature and culture merge with the pleasures … but tranquil journeys. Spend a Night in the Cather Second Home Guest House Quiet, Cozy, Just like Home Whether you are …
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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder
… book one 75-minute tour to visit the Willa Cather Childhood Home, Burlington Depot, and J.L. Miner House while viewing … archival collections connected to mourning practices, workplace injuries, and even Cather's own personal interest in … devices. The Final Stop, a post-tour reception, will take place at the National Willa Cather Center from 7:15 - 9:15 …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn about … has become known as one of America’s canonical authors. The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings … On December 7, Cather’s 150th birthday will be fêted with guided holiday tours—including of the Childhood Home—and a …
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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 …
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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 … and the critically acclaimed novels One of Ours , O Pioneers! , The Song of the Lark , and My Ántonia . In …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering, O Pioneers! and My Á ntonia , but … other places found there too: the desert southwest of The Song of the Lark , The Professor's House , and Death Comes …
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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday
… Governors at the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska! When people now speak of the leading American …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… her paternal grandparents, William and Caroline Cather. The house, called Willow Shade, is located in an area near Back … brother Roscoe Cather is born. 1879 — Railroad begins operating in Red Cloud. 1880 — Willa Cather’s second oldest … the Harling family of My Antonia . 1885 — The Red Cloud Opera House is built on the second floor above the town’s …
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Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America
… and the critically acclaimed novels One of Ours , O Pioneers! , The Song of the Lark , and My Ántonia . This …
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Press Room
… 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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