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Willa Cather and One of Ours: A Dramatic Reading

… Nov 16, 2024 | 6 - 8pm CT Red Cloud Opera House and Art Gallery 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States … us on Saturday, November 16th for a dramatic reading of Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel One of Ours , part of …
Posted: 09/16/2024
Last Updated: 10/30/2024

69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. … her “library,” with her books labeled and sometimes numbered in the back room of her father’s office. As our … on Saturday, June 8th. Attendees are also encouraged to visit, Hommage: Willa Cather , on view at the Red Cloud …
Posted: 09/21/2023
Last Updated: 06/06/2024

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 … 150 Years of Willa Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop … be served throughout the day, and the National Willa Cather Bookstore will have an extensive offering of gifts and books …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in  Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather Timeline

… 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … later use this event in one of her most famous novels,  My Antonia . 1882  — Red Cloud becomes a division point for the … a Jewish couple from Europe who allow her to borrow books from their personal library. Mrs. Wiener introduces …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … eventually became the scholarly journal, Willa Cather Review ) and issues of the informational  News from Cather …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… 1.  In addition to program notes on selections related to Cather’s works, this recent interview reveals more about Red … on a Fulbright and then to Vienna, where she first read Willa Cather’s novel,  The Song of the Lark .  “That is when … from Prague and sang in all the major opera houses of the world.  How does performing in your hometown opera house …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Willa Cather Celebration Weekend

… States Please join us in New Hampshire this fall for “Willa Cather’s Spirit Lives On," a series of events held on … director, and Tracy Tucker, education director, are featured speakers during the weekend, which also includes tours … Burying Ground  Cather Exhibit at Melville Academy Museum  Visit to High Mowing, where Cather wrote My Ántonia Box …
Posted: 03/15/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather!

… Image Image 10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather! April 26, 2023 Experience the prairie world … for Cather when she returned home to visit family and friends. The self-catering accommodations are a perfect … essay, and beautiful homage to her prairie roots and childhood home state, “ Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle …
Posted: 04/18/2023
Last Updated: 05/02/2023

Willa Cather Goes Back to School, Almost

… Image Willa Cather Goes Back to School, Almost August 28, 2019 "In … trees and plan out useful and honorable futures for the Red Cloud boys and girls. There is nothing for us to do now … school principal while Cather attended. Cather planned to visit Red Cloud in 1909 for the May commencement, but her …
Posted: 08/27/2019
Last Updated: 05/02/2023

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