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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist
… country focus on educating patrons and the general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the … the questions she gets most often. How do you pronounce Cather? According to Henry Blackman Sell in a short article for the Chicago Daily News , Cather is "pronounced to rhyme with rather, if you …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia
… Image Image NEA Big Read: My Ántonia Programs Offered to Communities and … by the National Endowment for the Arts for their 2024 Big Read initiative. In partnership with Arts Midwest, the …
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The National Endowment for the Arts Big Read: My Ántonia
… Events Friday, Oct 4, 2024 | All day CT the National Willa Cather Center 425 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 … citizen and student pricing is available for the tour. Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles … Blind d’Arnault. It utilizes archival imagery and artist biography to inspire patrons to grapple with larger …
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Virtual Author Series: Terese Svoboda
… Online Now Join us for a discussion of Svoboda’s answer to Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia ! Readers will delight in … Kent as "astounding;" The Washington Post regarded her biography Anything That Burns You as "magisterial." …
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General Resources
… more about Cather's life and work include: An extended Willa Cather biography . Texts, chronology, and other resources may be accessed using the Willa Cather Archive . Readers are encouraged to visit …
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Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong
… , made a low key visit to Red Cloud and the National Willa Cather Center last week. Wong and Giamatti, who joined … Streams, enjoyed tours of the Cather historic sites, the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie , and a quiet stay in the … the adaption of David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of John Adams . …
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Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading
… is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Core Program at Ohio Dominican University. She recently …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… Taylor Image Image "Chasing Bright Medusas" Special Events Thursday, Oct 19, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now … pre-order Taylor's book on our website. Stay tuned for more information about a special celebration of Taylor's new book …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… Discussion #3: The Professor's House As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s 150th year, we are pleased to announce a … scheduled in anticipation of the publication of his new biography, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather. …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… interesting dualities. She was intensely engaged with her small hometown, even as she became a traveler of the world; … answers. Old schoolmates, distant relatives, kindly people whom I had known in some part of the United States. . … to Houghton Mifflin's Alverda Van Tuyll, "In the first place, let me tell you how delighted I am that you get a …
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