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My Ántonia at 100: The Ongoing Story
… Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States “Black Hawk, the new world in which we had come to live”: Stories from the Red Cloud Community A special session of … Nebraska, both during Cather’s life and today. In My Ántonia when Jim Burden is relocated to Black Hawk …
Posted: 03/14/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023
Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen
… Image Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen January 15, 2023 Rachel Olsen has been part of the Willa Cather Foundation …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 02/07/2023
Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… off solely for Cather as the eldest of seven siblings. The simple room with board walls and sloping ceilings was for a …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 04/25/2024
Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … Hall Selection Committee was created to select a sculptor, review and approve plans for the statue, and identify a …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 04/03/2024
Finding Aids
… Cather, Wallace and Blanche Cather Ray, Grosvenor P. and Myrtle Bartlett Cather, and the Burlington & Missouri River … & Morgan 1947 Correspondence TEX-62-035 Note regarding gift Marsha Brockway 2012? Willard Crowell Collection Date … 1899 To Mother, March 21, 1900 W.S.C. Cather, Willa My Ántonia 1918 n/a Catallus Selected Poems of Catallus 1910 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 02/17/2024
Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather
… American West with a singular voice in her body of poems, essays, short stories, and the critically acclaimed novels … One of Ours , O Pioneers! , The Song of the Lark , and My Ántonia . In partnership with the Ames Writers Collective … Willa Cather Center, readers will be reacquainted, and new readers will be introduced to Cather's body of work. …
Posted: 01/04/2024
Last Updated: 02/05/2024
Willa Cather Biography
… of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for Rinehart-Marsden Studios, Omaha, 1921. Photographic portrait of … Cather. Photographic portrait of Willa Cather, 1921. Rinehart-Marsden Studios. Today Willa Cather is one of the most … volumes— The World and The Parish (two volumes) and T he Kingdom of Art —is indicative of the tremendous drive the …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024
Willa Cather Timeline
… 1870 — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … not proclaimed as being bound for lofty things by the local newspaper. Only sixteen years old, Cather enrolls at the … by Knopf. 1936 — Knopf publishes Cather’s only book of essays, Not Under Forty . In the book’s introduction, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… for this series. We will read: April 27, at 7:00 pm CT: My Ántonia June 1, at 12:30 pm CT: A Lost Lady September 21, … Angeles Times/Christopher Isherwood Prize and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice; his Proust: The Search … York Times Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag, Debriefing , was published by …
Posted: 04/24/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023
Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience
… Willa Cather. Her mother was a voracious reader, and My Ántonia was among the Cather books on her shelf the day … she is grateful for all that was done to ensure that the stories of immigrants like Anna Pavelka are shared for … home.—as well as accessibility and landscape improvements. New interpretive exhibits are planned for the location, as …
Posted: 09/08/2023
Last Updated: 09/08/2023