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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain … home of the bride’s mother, Rachel Boak, in Virginia. 1873  — Charles Cather’s brother George and his wife Frances A. … Red Cloud. 1913  — Cather’s first “Nebraska novel,”  O Pioneers! , appears in print. Cather agrees to write S. S. …
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Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration

… Image Willa Cather Image Join us at the Boston Athenaeum Special Events … HERE The Boston Athenaeum is pleased to partner with The National Willa Cather Center to commemorate the sesquicentennial of Willa Cather's …
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Reading Willa Cather: A 150th Birthday Celebration

… and gradual emergence. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers!, My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House …
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Book Club Resources

… special arrangements for a book club visit to Red Cloud.  O Pioneers! O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark My …
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Reading Willa Cather with Mary Stuart Masterston & Jeremy Davidson

… of the 20th century. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , Death Comes for the …
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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

…  "We come and go, but the land is always here...”  —O Pioneers! Visit Red Cloud and immerse yourself in the …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Following are excerpts of that process gleaned from past newsletters. [Scroll down to read what was entered into the … medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.” 50 Volunteers, 34 Extra Postal Workers, 11 Nebraska Towns, a … eventually became the scholarly journal, Willa Cather Review ) and issues of the informational  News from Cather …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years  Cather's essay for the Nation still resonates September 5, … than I do, are satisfied with my presentation of it.”   [Willa Cather Papers, 1899-1949, in the Clifton Waller … Nebraska. If we are to judge from her previously published material she still feels herself flesh of our flesh, bone of …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… Gynt” — referencing Norwegian immigrants as in Cather’s O Pioneers! Dvorak’s “Songs my Mother Taught Me” — Czech …
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Novels

… Ours Claude Leaves Nebraska to Go to War "When she can see nothing that has come of it all but evil, she reads Claude's … and something else was there, too,—in her heart, was it, or under her cheek? Anyhow, it was about her somewhere, that … he began, with the land. He owned exactly six hundred and forty acres of what stretched outside his door; his own …
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