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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… editing a modern collection of state contributions: “Eighty-one years ago, on April 19, 1922, The Nation launched a … under the eighth grade: “Miss Cather told her audience that one of the things which retarded art in America was the … with Nebraska that will make her always distinctly “one of ours.” It is fortunate that Nebraska has Willa Cather, the …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… Arneson Red Cloud’s Very Own Operatic Soprano August 15, 2023 Sarah Arneson was born and raised in Red Cloud and has … later won a medal in an Austrian shooting competition.  “My parents worked and saved so that I could go to college … “Songs my Mother Taught Me” — Czech immigrants as in My Ántonia and Mr. Schimerda was a violinist in the Prague …
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Novels

… Red Cloud for your group. Please contact us at 402-746-2653 for more information. One of Ours Claude Leaves Nebraska … of the Great War Explore the One of Ours Collections Group My Ántonia Meet a Heroine in American Fiction "There seemed to …
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The Bel Canto Duo: Four Cather Tableaux

… of the First Cycle," April Twilights and Other Poems, and One of Ours , publications that defined Willa Cather's 50th year …
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Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America

… Space, New York City • In Person & Livestreamed Special Events Wednesday, Sep 27, 2023 | 7 - 8:30pm Peter Jay Sharp … acclaimed novels  One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . This special evening of short …
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Music in Willa Cather's Writing

… Kronborg immerses herself as she is growing up in Moonstone, Colorado, a fictional community based on Cather’s … performance are friends from her childhood days in Moonstone, as well as the teacher who discovered her vocal … emerge with these closing numbers.  Playlist IV   One Of Ours Image Symbolism of Music in the Shadows Willa Cather’s …
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68th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Conference Schedule Loading... Powered By Whova App for Conferences Invited Speaker: Dr. Molly Rozum Image Molly …
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Press Room

… life. Cather was the first American writer to use the Great Plains as a detailed setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the American … in Cather's work—in particular  O Pioneers!  (1913),  The Song of the Lark  (1915),  My Ántonia  (1918),  One of Ours …
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Country Tour

… Image The Divide Country Tour "As I looked about me I felt that the …
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Organization History

… Cather  is still widely used by scholars as a valuable source work for Cather’s early years. In the early 1950s, … work; the  St. Juliana Catholic Church , of the novel  My Ántonia  the  Grace Episcopal Church , which houses a pair … and the Pavelka Farmstead, the rural setting for the final scenes in  My Ántonia . A pivotal event was the 1962 …
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