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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 was first published in 1951 in The World of … Cather by Mildred Bennett, founder of the Willa Cather Foundation. For its fascinating look at the writer in …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/01/2026

Finding Aids

… Lipstick case     Writing equipment OBJ-50-1000-059 Pen holder     Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-1 Small metal … Small metal purse     Jewelry OBJ-50-1000-061 Gold snake ring     Correspondence TX-50-1000-062 Letter to … Emerson The Hamlet Problem and Its Solution 1912 n/a Verne, Jules Five Weeks in a Balloon n/d n/a Verne, Jules Michael …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are commemorating acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s 150th year with a host of special events … Cather , Red Cloud, NE: a special Red Cloud Opera House Gallery exhibit of international works honoring the birth …
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 Hall, U.S. Capitol Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. … 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

… Image Image Jaffrey Public Library, Jaffrey, NH (courtesy image) Image The Jaffrey Public Library, Jaffrey, … FREE-OF-CHARGE Special Events Tuesday, Jun 25, 2024 | 6:30 - 7:30pm ET The Jaffrey Public Library 38 Main Street … and gradual emergence. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House …
Posted: 06/05/2024
Last Updated: 06/05/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour … Cather house is vividly described in Cather's novel,  The Song of the Lark , and short stories, “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… many immigrants in the region and listening to their stories. 1884  — Willa Cather and her family move into town. … not proclaimed as being bound for lofty things by the local newspaper. Only sixteen years old, Cather enrolls at the … S. McClure. 1906  — Cather accepts a job at  McClure’s  in New York, one of the United States’s most successful and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… Arneson Red Cloud’s Very Own Operatic Soprano August 15, 2023 Sarah Arneson was born and raised in Red Cloud and has … to Vienna, where she first read Willa Cather’s novel,  The Song of the Lark .  “That is when I realized Cather's interest in opera …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… p. 2  Interest in Cather p. 2  Willa Cather Merit Badge Girl Scouts p. 3  President's Activities p. 3  Financial … Fulfilled  AUTHOR: Mildred R. Bennett p. 1  TITLE: Review: Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940)  AUTHOR: Dorothy Canfield Fisher p. 3  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

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