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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

… available for download. Betty Kort Collection Date range:  1762-1973 Bulk dates:  1918-1943 Finding Aid created by Tracy … genealogy Burlington & Missouri River Railroad journals building records financial instruments Related Materials:   … materials Notes on WCPM museum displays, historic sites, tour scripts Loose clippings about Cather, WCPM, Red Cloud …
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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

… please contact our Visitor Services Coordinator, Nick Powers, at npowers@willacather.org . Advance notice is necessary to …
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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … its stabilization and preservation. In October 2025, she donated the birthplace property to Willa Cather's Virginia, … contribute to the community at large.”  The Willa Cather Foundation is proud to be working collaboratively with Willa …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… 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 … respected Willa Cather scholar, is currently writing a biography of Cather. He is co-editor of The Selected Letters …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… virtual book launch and reading of Benjamin Taylor’s Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather (at 7:00 p.m. CT). Birthday …
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Willa Cather Biography

… publish there; it serialized her first novel,  Alexander's Bridge , in 1912. Once she had completed her second novel …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in … for the character Thea Kronborg in her next novel,  The Song of the Lark . Cather visits Nebraska.  1915  — Cather publishes  …
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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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