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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

… (Heinemann, London) Faxon Field, Theron Field, Emilia R. Flower, Newman Foote Raffy, Katherine Fox, Howard Freeman, …     Willa Cather Childhood Home Plate (1977)     WCPM metal flower keychain     WCMP pencils     Lucy Gayheart …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Cather Sesquicentennial

… bedroom. The restoration was made possible in part by a Save America’s Treasures grant from the National Park … curriculum support resources  at www.willacather.org or to  download the National Willa Cather Center app for virtual …
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 … “Willa Cather was always a champion for Nebraska. While her writing spans settings that include the desert Southwest, …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library

… Hampshire, join us for a sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured American … Willa Cather spent many autumns (from 1917-late 1930s) on writing retreats at the Shattuck Inn beneath Mount Monadnock …
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 … Cather Center in 2017,  stated, “Through Willa Cather’s writing, we have a better understanding of one of the most …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site that would soon become the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… 1.  In addition to program notes on selections related to Cather’s works, this recent interview reveals more about Red … on a Fulbright and then to Vienna, where she first read Willa Cather’s novel,  The Song of the Lark .  “That is when … heroine is an opera singer. The plot is loosely based on my life growing up on a farm in Nebraska and of Norwegian …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 1957. Simply use the Control + F function to search the document for individual words or phrases. Readers may also … Miriam Mountford  Title: Prototypes of Characters in My Ántonia Recognized at Spring Banquet  AUTHOR: Victor P. Hass … Kvasnicka, South High School, Omaha p. 62  TITLE: Phillips Takes Position with University of Nebraska Foundation  …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

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