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Serena's Album

… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather … theorizes that Serena came to Red Cloud to continue her studies with J. F. Curran, the very popular Superior High … photographer, of German parentage. He appears in an 1899 volume entitled Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Finding Aids

… available for download. Betty Kort Collection Date range:  1762-1973 Bulk dates:  1918-1943 Finding Aid created by … Stephen, 1906-1987 Then or Tien? c/o Todd, Frank L. Trowbridge, Augustus Tyrrell, William Undset, Sigrid Van … and Triumphs n/d n/a Cushing, Mary Watkins The Rainbow Bridge 1954 Elsie M. Cather, contains Fremstad clipping …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Cather Sesquicentennial

… novelist Willa Cather’s 150th year with a host of special events throughout 2023 and 2024. December 7, 2023 marked the … Oct 19 — Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor on Death Comes for the Archbishop • Virtual Oct 20 — …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 12/31/2024

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 … said in an interview, “I had searched for books telling about the beauty of the country I loved, its romance, and … as if surrounded by nature, at home in the Nebraska prairie.” Cather’s likeness will join less than a dozen …
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 Comes … a fireproof vault for safe keeping of town records.” Her gift was part of a pattern of philanthropists funding public …
Posted: 06/05/2024
Last Updated: 06/05/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image 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 …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain … and the town of Red Cloud are officially organized. 1872  — Charles Cather and Mary Virginia Boak marry on December … Red Cloud. 1913  — Cather’s first “Nebraska novel,”  O Pioneers! , appears in print. Cather agrees to write S. S. …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… voice and violin arrangement. This aria is indirectly mentioned by Thea in The Song of the Lark , since she often … Gynt” — referencing Norwegian immigrants as in Cather’s O Pioneers! Dvorak’s “Songs my Mother Taught Me” — Czech … Massenet’s “Meditation for Violin from Thais” — One of Ours includes a direct reference to this famous violin …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … 16.1  Winter 1972 Editor: Miriam Mountford  Cather Horne Named … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip … II p. 13  Other item-in this issue: Plans underway for 1986 national seminar p. 14  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

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