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Serena's Album

… Serena's Album Loading Serena's Album Rediscovering Serena’s Album In … Jane Dressler, is the owner of Serena’s album. 2-3 Preface The publisher encourages users to “enliven each … This, too, may have been meant seriously; early aviation pioneers such as John Joseph Montgomery made headlines …
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 collections … Jeremiah Smith   1793 Ephemera OBJ-50-1000-008 "The Truth About Horace" Poem Written Inside Book Cover Eugene Field   … Checks from City National Bank, Lincoln   1900 Newspaper TX-50-1000-014 Newspaper Clippings About Princeton …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Cather Sesquicentennial

… teachers around the country are encouraged to explore discussion questions and  curriculum support resources  at … are interested in hosting a Cather event are encouraged to contact the National Willa Cather Center at 402-746-2653 or  … Library , Arlington, VA: 6:00 p.m. ET — Free of charge. August 21 — Willa on Wednesday  at The Mount , Lenox, MA: 5:30 …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 12/31/2024

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

… She joins Ponca Chief Standing Bear, installed in 2019, as one of two new sculptures that represent Nebraska. The … in the centenary year of her Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska … incorporated. These include a turquoise jacket that was a gift to Cather from her editors, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library

… ( O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , Death Comes for the Archbishop ) set a new standard … and archive storage), termed the History Floor as it still houses many of the historic portraits and is part of the original building. We also house our history books on that floor and have a small Willa …
Posted: 06/05/2024
Last Updated: 06/05/2024

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 … restoration in more than fifty years.  A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa Cather Childhood … Willa Cather Bookstore will have an extensive offering of gifts and books at 15% off. Visitors on tour in December …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… home of the bride’s mother, Rachel Boak, in Virginia. 1873  — Charles Cather’s brother George and his wife Frances A. … Register of Historic Places and open year-round for guided tours. Winter 1883 to 1884  — Willa Cather attends a … Cather’s brother James Cather is born. Silas Garber begins building the Farmers and Merchants Bank in downtown Red …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… later won a medal in an Austrian shooting competition.  “My parents worked and saved so that I could go to college … numerous coincidences of Cather's character, ‘Thea’ with my own.” Sarah knew Mildred Bennett in Red Cloud, who was … English was her high school music teacher.  “He encouraged my singing when I thought it was nothing special. I was …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Gerber, Philip L., 9.2:3; "Willa Cather and the Big Red Rocks," College English, Jan. 1958,             12.2:3 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

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