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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann

… Online Now Join us for an engaging conversation about Nebraska memoir with Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann, two writers with Nebraska roots who explore the world in order to learn more … of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled forests of …
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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 … personal essays, a collection of essays on literature and writing, as well as biographies of Donald Barthelme, Joseph …
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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!

… with a English degree and concentration in American Literature, and a minor in Psychology. Nolan says he feels very much “at home on the rolling plains of the Midwest” and is enjoying the prairie and … of an author looks like and means. It has also been a great experience working with other like-minded people who …
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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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Visions Seen in the Air: An Invitational Exhibit

… Water. Coupled with Cather’s evocative nonfiction piece, “Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle,” readers see the many ways that Cather’s home town of Red Cloud, Nebraska, has continued to occupy a major place in American … home that would later inspire Cather as she created her six Nebraska novels. Exhibiting artists include: Shane Booth, …
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Press Room

… cpond@WillaCather.org The National Willa Cather Center  413 North Webster Street  Red Cloud, NE 68970  … O Pioneers!  (1913),  The Song of the Lark  (1915),  My Ántonia  (1918),  One of Ours  (1922),  A Lost Lady  (1923), …
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Country Tour

… in it, the whole country seemed somehow, to be running."  — My Ántonia The Country Tour highlights twenty historic sites … of the Webster County countryside, including settings from  My Ántonia, O Pioneers!, One of Ours,  short stories …
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Organization History

… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group of … literature and Red Cloud’s unique potential to become a living museum, reflecting the settings for six of Cather’s …
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Usage Guidelines

… Willa Cather Trust (a partnership between the University of Nebraska Foundation, the Willa Cather Foundation, and a … Archives at the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. …
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