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Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America

… AN OFFICIAL 2023 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT Image Cather at 150 Symphony Space, New York City • In Person & … States Purchase Tickets Produced in association with the Willa Cather Foundation, filmmaker  Ken Burns  hosts this …
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Serena's Album

… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather … theorizes that Serena came to Red Cloud to continue her studies with J. F. Curran, the very popular Superior High … photographer, of German parentage. He appears in an 1899 volume entitled Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive …
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Finding Aids

… Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials related to the life and works of … Prize-winning author Willa Cather. Our museum and archival collections, housed in Cather's hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, containing memorabilia, artifacts, historic photographs, art and decorative arts, …
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Guided Seasonal Tour

… Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for their … success as a farm family, it also symbolizes the immigrant stories and rich multiculturalism that shaped the Great …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Though associated with the Great Plains, American author Willa Cather spent much of her childhood in Frederick County, … which receives generous support from the Marion Park Lewis Foundation. Andrew Jewell , a highly respected Willa Cather …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … —Watch a recording of the ceremony and scroll down for a gallery of images and more information— The Congressional …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Cather rented the home through 1904. Many of Cather’s books depict life in Red Cloud and Webster County during the … be served throughout the day, and the National Willa Cather Bookstore will have an extensive offering of gifts and books at 15% off. Visitors on tour in December will also be …
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Historic Sites

… author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the Cather family moved in. … 1965. Efforts to save the depot were extensive, requiring relocation and a full restoration—the result of the railroad's … Carrie, Mary, and Irene Miner. The Miners inspired the Harling family of My Ántonia . Cather dedicated My Ántonia …
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Willa Cather Biography

… increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen … her first book, April Twilights and Other Poems . Some,  A Lost Lady  in 1923, parts of  The Professor's House  in 1925, …
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Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading

… their libraries and take advantage of the full range of new scholarship and biographical resources that have recently …
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