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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 … Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska.  Subjects: short stories Cather genealogy Willa Cather personal effects … in the collection include notes from oral histories collected by Bennett and John March, transcripts of Cather …
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Through Darkness to Light

… bring to bear. Occasionally, they were guided from one secret, safe location to the next by an everchanging, … there is little visual documentation because of its secretive nature. Today, as America becomes more and more …
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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 United States Enjoy an afternoon filled with art and history! Nebraska historian Bill Hayes …
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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

… 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … numerous Cather-related historic properties, expansion of educational programming and exhibits, development of visitor … help the National Willa Cather Center provide classroom resources for teachers, preserve historic sites associated …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny enclave of French culture that was Quebec City at the end of the seventeenth … an important first step for Cather—she wrote much of the material it published herself, fiction, nonfiction, and …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United … in Red Cloud. 1880  — Willa Cather’s second oldest brother Douglass Cather is born. 1881  — Willa Cather’s oldest … is the only student not proclaimed as being bound for lofty things by the local newspaper. Only sixteen years old, …
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Willa Cather: Life & Literature

… Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center … before moving to Nebraska Image Special presentation by Ashley Olson Special Events Sunday, Oct 22, 2023 | 3 - 4pm Museum …
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