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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

… Image The Willa Cather Childhood Home in her restored glory (April 2024) Image … Olsen, Director of Education & Engagement View the image gallery below—and download designs of our souvenir program, …
Posted: 06/13/2024
Last Updated: 06/15/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A … Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop , Willa Cather …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

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 …
Posted: 06/01/2022
Last Updated: 05/07/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… emerges from this arrangement of her facts is complex and brilliant," and that "she knows at all points what she … Skaggs knew that beyond her own readings that there existed a growing body of evidence to support such a claim: … herself born" as she would write of another artist, Thea Kronborg, in  The Song of the Lark  (150)—the Willa Cather …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

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 …
Posted: 12/03/2023
Last Updated: 12/05/2023

Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday

… Image Willa Cather, c. 1912 Image Talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, President, Willa Cather … and cemented the reputation her prairie-plains novels ( O Pioneers!  [1913],  The Song of the Lark  [1915], and …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/26/2023

Willa Cather Timeline

… arriving at the Red Cloud train depot, the Cathers drive sixteen miles by team and wagon to the precinct of Catherton. … Cathers will call this rented house their home for the next twenty years. Cather meets William Ducker, an Englishman … who is said to be the model for the character Thea Kronborg in her next novel,  The Song of the Lark . Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023

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 …
Posted: 09/27/2023
Last Updated: 10/06/2023

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 …
Posted: 05/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023

50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a … work of Willa Cather:  “‘There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as … graduation from the University of Nebraska, she worked on a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, newspaper, and later for a …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

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