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Virtual Author Series: Joy Castro
… Flame . A common thread across many of our literary events this year is the role important historical events play as catalysts for original stories. In Castro's … in stark contrast to the Great Plains homesteading town of Willa Cather's youth in the 1880s. This event is free with …
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American Bittersweet: The Life & Writing of Willa Cather
… that grows outside Cather’s childhood home in Red Cloud, Nebraska, explores and embraces the complexities of Cather’s …
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Red Cloud Opera House
… Image Image Image Image Red Cloud Opera House When I go about among little Nebraska towns, the thing I miss most is the Opera House." —Willa Cather, Personal Interview Built in …
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Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts
… the opening of the feature film adaptation of her 1923 novel, A Lost Lady. It was the first of her works to be … you can get a very high price for the film rights of "The Song of the Lark" I'll consent to the sale," she wrote to her editor …
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Virtual Author Series: Thomas C. Gannon
… Gannon's reading! Funding was provided by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. The views expressed in this book do not necessarily reflect the view of Humanities Nebraska or the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. You can also …
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Abbi Detlefsen
… B.A. in history in 2020 from Peru State College, in Peru, Nebraska, where she was a Phi Alpha Theta member from …
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Thrift Style
… Arts Alliance. Supported in part by a grant from the Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation. Image Thrift …
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My Ántonia: The Story of a Great American Novel
… Image Willa Cather Free Event at the Joslyn! Special Events … and a novel that is part of today’s literary canon, My Ántonia’s worldwide appeal is demonstrated by its …
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Guided Seasonal Tour
… "Where We Live" theme. The novel is set in Black Hawk, Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood … real-life friend, Anna Sadilek Pavelka, who immigrated to Nebraska from Bohemia (the Czech Republic today) in 1880. …
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Cather Sesquicentennial
… 2023 Schedule of Events Feb 17 — Kearney Library, Kearney, Nebraska: 12:00 p.m. — Rachel Olsen, Director of Education & … Willa Cather Center and is being performed throughout Nebraska in 2023. Feb 24–25 — Animal Engine Theater … by the Cather Archive and Cather Project at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, FREE, 3:00-5:00 p.m. • Ethel S. Abbott …
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