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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting
… Image The Willa Cather Childhood Home in her restored glory (April 2024) … Home Rededication and Ribbon Cutting! Willa Cather Foundation leadership, project partners and supporters, … Olsen, Director of Education & Engagement View the image gallery below—and download designs of our souvenir program, …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… moved to Nebraska from Virginia in 1883. Her final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. …
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Own A Piece of History: Willa Cather Sculpture
… Image Image Image Littleton Alston with his statue of Willa Cather at the U.S. Capitol—June 7, 2023 Own A Piece of … a piece in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Read more about—and view—the June 7, 2023 unveiling ceremony at the …
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Willa Cather Biography
… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
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Annotations from the Archive: The Willa Cather Childhood Home
… Image The Willa Cather Childhood Home as construction work nears completion … many resources from our archive to search for clues about how the house was constructed, updated, and used over … of the house shows, at magnification, the original brick foundation, much of which was lost during 20th century …
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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday
… Image Willa Cather, c. 1912 Image Talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, President, Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events Thursday, Nov … We are in the midst of the centenaries of these books and about to celebrate the sesquicentennial of Cather’s birth. …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… it is only a coincidence that passages in his book The Great Gatsby closely resemble a passage in Cather’s A Lost Lady … stipulates this in her will. 1935 — In the midst of the Great Depression, Cather, who is used to helping her friends …
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Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection
… the U.S. Capitol, June 7, 2023 Image A bronze statuette of Willa Cather by Littleton Alston Willa Cather Statue Dedication & … open hours . This event if free of charge. Learn more about Willa Cather and Material Culture and artist Betty …
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Announcing the Inaugural Cohort in the Willa Cather Residency for Writers
… Image Inaugural Willa Cather Residency for Writers Announcing the Inaugural Cohort … senior editor at Harper’s Magazine and her book of essays about women writers, A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … to hear Regional Postmaster General Clarence B. Gels speak about Willa Cather. Also in the audience were relatives of …
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