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Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead
… A new permanent exhibit "We turned to leave the cave; Ántonia and I went up the stairs first, and the children … cave into the sunlight. It made me dizzy for a moment." - My Ántonia Image Located in rural Webster County, near … Sponsor Benefits Invitation to the welcome reception. Commemorative exhibit bookmark. Set of notecards featuring …
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Guided Seasonal Tour
… Image Guided Seasonal Tour Ántonia's Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by … reading programs designed around a single NEA Big Read book, with an aim to broaden our understanding of our world, … embodies the NEA’s "Where We Live" theme. The novel is set in Black Hawk, Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia
… to Communities and Organizations September 4, 2024 Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by … reading programs designed around a single NEA Big Read book, with an aim to broaden our understanding of our world, … embodies the NEA’s "Where We Live" theme. The novel is set in Black Hawk, Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled …
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Cather's Santa Fe: A Walking Tour - SOLD OUT!
… Image Cather wrote to decline a lecture request in 1925, using … characters in the novel that Cather called her "best book," such as Kit Carson, Padre Antonio José Martinez, and … We will learn about Sister Blandina Segale who helped to set up a hospital in Lamy's house, and visit the last …
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The National Endowment for the Arts Big Read: My Ántonia
… three new My Ántonia -related museum exhibits 5:00 p.m. – Gallery reception for The Artistic Nebraska Odyssey of Linda … to enjoy a slice of Anna Pavelka's poppyseed cake at the gallery reception. Willa Cather: Breaking the Mold A New … Cather “drew the American countryside with such clarity of detail and poetic accuracy that the camera, retracing her …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson
… of beloved performances, we are delighted to welcome her again to the Red Cloud Opera House stage on … to Cather’s works, this recent interview reveals more about Red Cloud’s own special artist's musical interests, … from wine to champagne. What are common misconceptions about opera—and opera singers? There have always been …
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Youth and the Bright Medusa
… Image Youth and the Bright Medusa Book Club Resources Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920) is a collection of eight short stories by the prolific Willa Cather. Four of the pieces contained in this collection were … The stories also take a hard glance at youth and time. Set largely in urban areas, this collection has a distinctly …
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Music in Willa Cather's Writing
… she enters the world of formal study in the urban Chicago landscape, her musical parameter shifts to a classic, … Kronborg’s ascent to the height of her musical career. She lands the plum role of Sieglinde in Richard Wagner’s Die … One of Ours. “I wanted my red-headed soldier from a prairie farm to 'get some of his back,' . . . through a fine …
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Dr. Melissa J. Homestead in Conversation with Alex Ross
… Image Image Opera House Friday, Mar 26, 2021 | 7 - 8:30pm Special Preview … novels Death Comes for the Archbishop and The Professor's House , Homestead has carefully reconstructed their life …
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Annotations From the Archive: Soldiers' Letters
… October 30, 2022 We conclude a year of reflection on Willa Cather's 1922 novel One of Ours by highlighting the letters … to work on telling her cousin's story. My Ántonia was set to be published in September of that year, and … Ferris Greenslet, that she is at work on not one, but two books. One of those was a return to the Blue Mesa story, …
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