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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift
… were all taken, so I looked and said, ‘Well, I did read My Ántonia a few years ago and liked it a lot,’” Harris … Willa Cather Review , Cather Studies , and editing the scholarly edition of One of Ours. “She was a first-rate …
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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House
… is called Moonstone for the town in Cather's novel The Song of the Lark . During Cather's time, this was the room of Willa's …
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Emily Caroline Cather's Trunk
… moved to Webster County in 1877. The Cather’s pioneer settlement of the Great Plains is part of a grander … and migrants from the U.S. The stories are different—one group generally more financially and culturally … including the Czechs in My Ántonia , Germans in One of Ours , and Swedish in O Pioneers! , receive much attention, …
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Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources
… their long-term preservation, the archives are open to anyone with research interest—and that includes students who … or more general archival research for History or English coursework. For many students, these visits comprise their … writes to her friend Carrie Miner Sherwood about her novel One of Ours , which she refers to as "Claude" for the main …
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Annotations from the Archive: Back to School
… Slow dewy mornings give way to airless afternoons spent, if one is lucky, in languid repose in the whispering shade of a … rest of the letter, which is a part of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial collection at the National Willa Cather … And yet Cather's words are so serious that we must remind ourselves of the author: a fifteen year old girl, caught …
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NWCC Launches NEH-Funded Digital Projects
… she notes, is a resource-intensive process but an important one. "The education team here at the NWCC felt strongly … apps on the Cuseum platform. Designed to enhance guided tours for Red Cloud visitors or to stand alone as an abridged tour for Willa Cather fans around the …
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An Evening With Willa Cather
… —a peer of Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Wharton—and one of the most treasured American writers of the early 20th … century. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , Death Comes for the …
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Cather Sesquicentennial
… Archive Dec 7 — Benjamin Taylor Book Launch & Reading for Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather (to be published on …
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Annotations from the Archives: Armistice Day
… the World War I experience and Cather’s depictions of it in One of Ours . Wherever you went in the United States, it was … and thrift. This issue of Ladies' Home Journal is just one such example from our collections. In One of Ours, …
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Reading Willa Cather
… Virginia for a 150th celebration of Willa Cather! Special Events Thursday, Sep 26, 2024 | 6 - 7:30pm ET Arlington … Street Arlington , VA 22201 United States For Further Information Join us for a sesquicentennial celebration of …
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