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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years Cather's essay for the Nation still resonates September 5, … series spanned from 1922-24 featuring different authors writing about 48 states. In 2003, John Leonard wrote in the … than I do, are satisfied with my presentation of it.” [Willa Cather Papers, 1899-1949, in the Clifton Waller …
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Virtual Author Series: David McKay Powell
… Online Now Learn more about the art form that inspired Willa Cather during her entire life! Author David McKay Powell … a dearth of musical education, Cather produced astute writing about the genre beginning in her earliest criticism …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones
… 21, 2022 Plans to rehabilitate the historic Potter Block in Red Cloud into a charming boutique hotel and event space have … the buildings will become a mixed-use facility, including gallery and exhibit areas and space for historic site tours …
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Potter Block Ceremonial Groundbreaking
… 2022 A standing-room only crowd of about 100 people gathered at the Potter Block (346 N. Webster Street, Red Cloud) on Friday, October 7, 2022, for a ceremonial … the two buildings will become a mixed-use space, including gallery and exhibit areas that will highlight important …
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The Professor's House
… over the course of a few years, is an excellent example of Cather’s ability to use complex structures and a simplistic but powerful narrative. Cather is selective in her descriptions and the characters … the gaps. The Professor's House is a true show of Willa Cather's skill as an accomplished writer. Download …
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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann
… in it. If you are interested in the same "human stories" Willa Cather illuminated in her own work, you will enjoy this free … poetry and prose have appeared in Brevity, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Electric Literature, LitHub, New England …
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Virtual Author Series: Tracy Daugherty
… Street. This novel explores the friendship between Willa Cather and Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. Two different writers … New Yorker , Vanity Fair , British Vogue , The Paris Review online, McSweeney’s , Ploughshares Solos , …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library
… of the Auld Library and the purchase of books. Charles Cather was elected the first president of the library board. … what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is significant; … involvement with the Auld Library, and from Willa's own writing, just how much the Cather family valued literature …
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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, … who care about the ongoing impact of Willa Cather and her writing. Although I have only been introduced to Cather in …
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Authors Margo Jefferson & Elizabeth Kendall
… United States '"Raw and relentless/gaudy and extravagant": Willa Cather's New York' Join us at the 18th International Willa … in New York for this free program at The New School, with authors Margo Jefferson and Elizabeth Kendall, who will …
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