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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
… 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
… - 2pm CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States Enjoy an afternoon filled … escaped to freedom and traveled roughly 2,000 miles to visit actual sites, cities, and places that freedom-seekers …
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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund
… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation … stabilization and eventual restoration and programming. ABOUT THE BIRTHPLACE The Cather birthplace remains a …
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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 … Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn about historic site tour … with Cather's life and work, conserve the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, care for priceless collections, and allow …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … has been the new and ready availability of Cather’s own letters to researchers. These letters are held in archives … precluded by a proviso in Cather’s will. But The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (2013), edited by Andrew …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas Garber, … Gere, Cather visits Brownville, Nebraska. A feature story about Brownville titled "The Old River Metropolis" was …
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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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