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Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal
… and reappraise many of the objects acquired when the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial was a nebulous new idea, yet to be … Howard Pyle, the illustrator who had so inspired Willa Cather as a child. Though the Reynard paintings hold a … (1966) recalled that afternoon, and posthumously, the Prairie Schooner published an expanded version under the …
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Brattleboro Literary Festival's Literary Cocktail Hour:
… Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center The Life of Willa Cather with Benjamin Taylor and Ashley Olson Special Events … author, as well as the 612-acre Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, historic lodging, and the Red Cloud Opera House. …
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Book Club Resources
… The Professor's House The Professor's House Alexander's Bridge Alexander's Bridge My Mortal Enemy My Mortal Enemy Shadows on the Rock …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… Her soul was given texture and form on its sweeping plains, under its clear skies, in contact with the hardy … and its people—the traditions and prairie landscape of the Great Plains that Cather loved and knew as a young woman, … of the change from coppery-brown prairie, peopled only by bison herds and bands of Indian hunters and wild fowl, into …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones
… stays. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the … will highlight connections to Red Cloud’s history and Willa Cather’s life and writing. The project is a key priority for … enjoy the museum, the historic sites, the town, the Cather Prairie, and other scenic places Cather loved. In the first …
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Potter Block Ceremonial Groundbreaking
… years. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the … milestones in Red Cloud’s history and connections to Willa Cather’s life and writing. The project is a key priority for … enjoy the museum, the historic sites, the town, the Cather Prairie, and other scenic places Cather loved. In the first …
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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann
… it. If you are interested in the same "human stories" Willa Cather illuminated in her own work, you will enjoy this free … monarch groves of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled … Mad Women (Dancing Girl Press, 2017), Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and The …
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My Ántonia
… powerful and magnificently observed novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American … undemonstrative strength make her emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. We first meet Antonia … suicide by the oceanic loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. Through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor and …
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Music in Willa Cather's Writing
… Image Music in Willa Cather's Writing While not a musician herself, Willa Cather was an avid musical consumer! She frequented the … One of Ours. “I wanted my red-headed soldier from a prairie farm to 'get some of his back,' . . . through a fine …
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Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns!
… between the University of Nebraska and the National Willa Cather Center. Nolan Bennett , originally from Kearney, … on the rolling plains of the Midwest” and is enjoying the prairie and farmland around Red Cloud, and being close to nature. Since arriving in Red Cloud he has increased his Cather reads from four novels to seven, after first being …
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