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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

… Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials related to the life and works of … Clipping TX-50-1000-055 "The Conversion of Sum Loo" The Library   Clipping TX-50-1000-056 Review of  Shadows on the … NWCC Microfilm Collection. Willa Cather Foundation Special Collections & Archives at the National Willa Cather …
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Through Darkness to Light

… grows on the north side of trees. An estimated 100,000 enslaved people chose to embark on a journey in search of … Willa Cather depicted parts of this journey in her novel Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), basing the story of Nancy's escape on Cather …
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Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains

… Image Nebraska's Underground Railroad Special Events Wednesday, Feb 18, 2026 | 1 - 2pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 … most likely found refuge on their journey north to freedom. Willa Cather's final novel Sapphira and the Slave Girl …
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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the … uses for the site, including educational programs, literary events, and community gatherings that honor Willa Cather’s … in her mother’s family, had fought in the Confederate army. Cather’s maternal grandmother, Rachel Seibert Boak, was …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Presentation at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley Special Events Saturday, Dec 7, 2024 | 2 - 3:30pm ET Museum of the … Though associated with the Great Plains, American author Willa Cather spent much of her childhood in Frederick … of the renowned writer's sesquicentennial with the National Willa Cather Center. Suggested donations of what you can pay …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … in more than fifty years.  A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa Cather Childhood Home was … historic sites and landscapes related to any other American writer. While Cather moved away from Nebraska in …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … 2023 too, it has sponsored celebratory Cather 150 events held all over the country—Los Angeles, New York, … seven children raised by Charles and Mary Virginia Cather. Cathers had been in the area since the 1700s, and Back …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … later use this event in one of her most famous novels,  My Antonia . 1882  — Red Cloud becomes a division point for …
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Willa Cather: Life & Literature

… Oct 22, 2023 | 3 - 4pm Museum of the Shenandoah Valley 901 Amherst Street Winchester , VA 22601 United States … influenced the novels   Sapphira and the Slave Girl   and   My Ántonia . MSV members: $5; all others: $10. Please register …
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