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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 …
Posted: 12/07/2015
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

Finding Aids

… Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska.  Subjects: short stories Cather genealogy Willa Cather personal effects … Mrs. Gunn, Anita Hambourg, Boris Hambourg, ? Heinemann, William, 1863-1920 Hess, Julia Myra Hibben, Jenny Davidson … in the collection include notes from oral histories collected by Bennett and John March, transcripts of Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Through Darkness to Light

… Leading to Another Conductor’s House, 2013 Photographs Along the Underground Railroad Art Gallery Tuesday, Feb 10 - Sunday, Mar 15, 2026 | … 1865. They moved in constant fear of being killed or recaptured, returned, and beaten as an example of what would happen …
Posted: 01/12/2026
Last Updated: 02/13/2026

Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains

… Nebraska historian Bill Hayes discusses the issue of slavery in the U.S. during the 1850s and the controversy … their journey north to freedom. Willa Cather's final novel Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) depicts a similarly harrowing journey, basing …
Posted: 01/28/2026
Last Updated: 02/10/2026

Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… her life, struggled to write the story of her home state.  Sapphira and the Slave Girl  (1940) is of increasing interest to contemporary …
Posted: 05/23/2023
Last Updated: 11/12/2025

Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… writing a biography of Cather. He is co-editor of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (Knopf, 2013), and of the … Cather’s Virginia is based in Gore, Virginia, the first home of one of America’s greatest writers. Pulitzer … the complexities of her Virginia birthplace—including the stories of those who inhabited what she described as “that …
Posted: 10/07/2024
Last Updated: 10/21/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … will resume in March of 2024. Guests who book a tour in the early weeks of that month will have an opportunity to see … 150 Years of Willa Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … 150 events held all over the country—Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, among many other locations. Beginning in the … an explosion, a pest" (Politics 7), listened to these stories and stockpiled the details, not knowing the use she …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… miles by team and wagon to the precinct of Catherton. They settle at the homestead of William and Caroline Cather. … oration in the Red Cloud Opera House. One of only three members in her class, Cather is the only student not … need, sends $50 to Annie Sadilek Pavelka to be used for a gift. Annie uses the money to pay for taxes on her farm …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

Willa Cather: Life & Literature

… Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center Image Willa Cather, 9, taken in Virginia … history of Willa Cather, Olsen will detail how the writer’s early years in Frederick County, Virginia, and formative years in Nebraska influenced the novels   Sapphira and the Slave Girl   and   My Ántonia . …
Posted: 09/27/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023

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