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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 collections … Bennett Book Inventory Box 17—Mementos, Photos, Gifts, Notes, including: Map of Grand Manan Drawings … Family correspondence also includes photos of Elsie Cather, baby picture of Roscoe, Charles F. Cather, Mary Virginia …
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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

… discusses the issue of slavery in the U.S. during the 1850s and the controversy surrounding the Kansas-Nebraska Act, … Railroad and how the movement became connected with the Great Plains. Hayes explores how the Underground Railroad … to attend and perfect for high school students studying American History prior to the Civil War! If you would like …
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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation efforts As American author Willa Cather’s 150th was celebrated in 2023, her birth home, a rural … remains a testament to the humble, rural origins of a great writer who, toward the end of her life, struggled to …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Image Image A Presentation at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley Special Events Saturday, Dec … which receives generous support from the Marion Park Lewis Foundation. Andrew Jewell , a highly respected Willa Cather … Virginia, contact Ann Romines at annrom3@verizon.net About Willa Cather's Virginia Willa Cather’s Virginia is …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings in some of Cather’s most popular writings, … Willa Cather Bookstore will have an extensive offering of gifts and books at 15% off. Visitors on tour in December …
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Willa Cather Biography

… was as good as his word, since Cather's second book,  The Troll Garden , a collection of stories, appeared from McClure, … containing both new stories and others revised from  The Troll Garden , in 1920. It was followed by  One of Ours , a …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … town of Red Cloud are officially organized. 1872  — Charles Cather and Mary Virginia Boak marry on December 5 at the … Frances A. (Smith) Cather (the eventual uncle and aunt of Willa Cather) stake a homestead on the Divide, a broad …
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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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