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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

… to Willa Cather like letters, clothing, jewelry, artwork, manuscripts, address books, journals, and sales ledgers for … Honorary Degree     Watercolor sketch TX-50-1000-015 Grand Manan Watercolor Edith Lewis   Photograph OBJ-50-1000-016 … in France unknown circa 1920 Photograph PHO-50-1000-031 Woman at Grand Manan unknown   Photograph PHO-50-1000-032 …
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Through Darkness to Light

… Red Cloud Opera House Gallery is made possible with the support of the Baldwin Foundation, Nebraska Arts Council, and the Nebraska Cultural … and a grant from the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation. Image …
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Fight Against Slavery on the Great Plains

… (HN) provides major funding for this program.  HN receives support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the … Red Cloud Opera House Gallery is made possible with the support of the Baldwin Foundation, Nebraska Arts Council, and the Nebraska Cultural …
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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 …
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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 …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… (1915): “The ceiling was so low that a grown person could reach it with the palm of the hand, and it sloped down on …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen in print) has established true texts for her works and, through … best place, Red Cloud, Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but … other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… later.  Silas Garber is elected governor of Nebraska. 1874  — Willa Cather and her parents move into the home of her … 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

… 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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