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Cather Book Club: Sapphira and the Slave Girl

… On April 21 the Willa Cather Book Club will meet to discuss Sapphira and the Slave Girl . There are two meeting times available; 4:00 p.m. at …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Salammbo of Flaubert 1886 illegible Shelley, Henry C.  Literary By-Paths in Old England 1907 illegible Shelley, …
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Through Darkness to Light

… on the north side of trees. An estimated 100,000 enslaved people chose to embark on a journey in search of freedom … rights movement in the Americas and the first time when people of different races and faiths worked together in …
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Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains

… the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and how the issue affected people moving to the Nebraska Territory. The presentation …
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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund Funds needed for … contribute to the community at large.”  The Willa Cather Foundation is proud to be working collaboratively with Willa … by family members who, in her father’s family, had supported the Union and, in her mother’s family, had fought …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Romney and Winchester.” Indeed, Cather’s final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), is set near her birthplace just a few miles …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … interpretation; a climate control system and a new roof and foundation. Enclosure of the attic space and extensive … is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. Events took place across the country throughout 2023-2024 to …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … 2023 too, it has sponsored celebratory Cather 150 events held all over the country—Los Angeles, New York, … that transformed her career. Building upon her solid foundation as an energetic journalist in Lincoln and …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in … House. (It would not reopen until after the Willa Cather Foundation begins its restoration efforts beginning in 1991 …
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Willa Cather: Life & Literature

… and formative years in Nebraska influenced the novels   Sapphira and the Slave Girl   and   My Ántonia . MSV members: $5; all others: $10. …
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