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Serena's Album

… earnest, or in jest,” but this separate document has been lost. The list of questions posed in Mental Portraits is … traveling companion, Adella Hurlbutt specifies “A Cultured Lady.” She is the soul of practicality in her desire if … owners, Sir William Vestey, the first Baron Vestey. Lady Vestey died in 1941 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest … Jeremiah Smith   1793 Ephemera OBJ-50-1000-008 "The Truth About Horace" Poem Written Inside Book Cover Eugene Field   … Lincoln   1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton Honorary Degree     Watercolor sketch …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Cather Sesquicentennial

… Hommage: Willa Cather , Red Cloud, NE: a special Red Cloud Opera House Gallery exhibit of international works honoring the … on Death Comes for the Archbishop • Virtual Oct 20 — UNL Opera presents O Pioneers! , 7:00 p.m. • Red Cloud Opera …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 12/31/2024

Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s … growing number of people world-wide,” Camp said. “I offered my support for Willa Cather’s statue because reading her … novels and stories in the late 1990s changed the course of my life. The opportunity to support a work of art in …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library

… emergence. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , Death …
Posted: 06/05/2024
Last Updated: 06/05/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour … part of the largest grouping of preserved historic sites and landscapes related to any other American writer. …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … later use this event in one of her most famous novels,  My Antonia . 1882  — Red Cloud becomes a division point for …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… Seraglio A Visit with Sarah Arneson Red Cloud’s Very Own Operatic Soprano August 15, 2023 Sarah Arneson was born and … we are delighted to welcome her again to the Red Cloud Opera House stage on September 1.  In addition to program notes on …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Miriam Mountford  Aims of the WCPM p. 1  Staff p. 1  Museum News and Donors p. 1  Interesting Visitors p. 2  Nebraska … Wide Interest in Cather p. 3  Annual Conference p. 4  Acknowledgements p. 4  … Visit with Irene Rich  AUTHOR: Lucia Woods p. 2  Photograph Exhibits p. 3  New Board Officers and Bequests to the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

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