Search Results

41 results found

Animal Engine Theatre Company presents "Henrietta Solway"

… Saturday, Jun 5, 2021 | 7:30pm In 2021, the National Willa Cather Center commissioned Animal Engine Theatre Company to … the stage that combines the short fiction and serialized novels of Willa Cather into one epic story.  When a tomboy … and takes a deep dive into bicycle culture during Cather's early years. It includes the full text of "Tommy, the …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal

… and reappraise many of the objects acquired when the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial was a nebulous new idea, yet to be … Bennett had ended, began studying Willa Cather. During this early time she contacted many acquaintances, friends, and … really found herself in relation to writing in the Nebraska novels. She said that she was convinced that the great thing …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Annotations from the Archive: Association Copies

… Image Willa Cather's name inside Pilgrim's Progress Annotations from the … Cather repeatedly mentions in letters, interviews, her early journalism, and in her fiction (“Old Mrs. Harris” and … to a Cather book’s content Because six of Cather's twelve novels and many short stories utilized people, places, and …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Benjamin Taylor Book Launch and Reading

… is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Core Program at Ohio Dominican University. She recently …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie  "We come and go, but the land … Exploration Backpack . Sign out one for each of your children or yourself to further explore our prairie wonders …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Virtual Author Series: David McKay Powell

… Now Learn more about the art form that inspired Willa Cather during her entire life! Author David McKay Powell … References to opera appear in all but three of her twelve novels and in roughly half of her short stories. Despite a … the two women frequently visited the theater, even in the early days, when purchasing tickets to attend performances …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Alexander's Bridge

… Bridge Book Club Resources Alexander’s Bridge (1912) is Cather’s first novel about an ambitious engineer, Bartley … at a book, Alexander’s Bridge is a necessary look into her early writing. Told from a more Eurocentric view than her later novels, this is Cather’s first attempt at long-form fiction …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Music in Willa Cather's Writing

… with Part I of  The Song of the Lark  reflects the colorful people and cultures in which the irrepressible Thea Kronborg … Playlist II   Part III: "Stupid Faces" Part IV: "The Ancient People" The music serving as backdrop to Part III … Arizona, relishing time spent in the natural beauty of the ancient cliff dwellings, where she begins to recover her …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Visions Seen in the Air: An Invitational Exhibit

… the very end of the road-making West; the men who had put plains and mountains under the iron harness were old; some … nothing could ever bring it back. The taste and smell and song of it, the visions those men had seen in the air and …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Visions Seen in the Air

Visions Seen in the Air Artist Invitational The exhibit’s title,  Visions Seen in the Air , asks invited contributing artists to contemplate the essence of Willa Cather’s home town and to convey, through any medium, that sense of place and feeling of home …
Posted:
Last Updated: