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2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees
Image From L to R: Trinity Houchin, Ava Hoffschneider, Autumn Wissenburg, and Ella K. Gaskill 2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees Awarded at our 68th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference July 7, 2023 On Friday, June …
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The <i>Ties</I> That Bind
Image Image Image Image An Art Exhibit by Betty Kort Art Gallery Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | 12am - Saturday, Aug 19, 2023 | 12am We are delighted to bring a special exhibition by Hastings artist Betty Kort to the newly restored Burlington Depot! The Ties …
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A Lost Lady
Image Vintage cover of A Lost Lady A Lost Lady Book Club Resources "If her image flashed into his mind, it came with a brightness of dark eyes, her pale triangular cheeks with long earrings, and her many-coloured laugh. When he was dull, dull and tired of …
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Virtual Author Series: Alex Kava
Image Author Series Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Acclaimed mystery novelist Alex Kava will be on hand to talk about her impressive career as a Nebraska author who writes in the tradition of other Nebraska mystery novelists such as …
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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann
Image Author Series Thursday, Aug 17, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Join us for an engaging conversation about Nebraska memoir with Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann, two writers with Nebraska roots who explore the world in order to learn …
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Virtual Author Series: Tracy Daugherty
Image 148 Charles Street Cover Author Series Thursday, Oct 12, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Help us welcome Tracy Daugherty as he discusses his book 148 Charles Street. This novel explores the friendship between Willa Cather and Elizabeth Shepley …
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My Ántonia
… Image Vintage cover of My Ántonia My Ántonia Book Club Resources In this symphonically powerful …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library
Annotations from the Archives: The Library July 11, 2023 Creating a culture of reading on the frontier wasn't easy! With days-long travel between towns, getting supplies of any kind—food, lumber, clothing, medicine—could be difficult and costly; it only …
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Music in Willa Cather's Writing
… Image Music in Willa Cather's Writing While not a musician herself, Willa Cather was an avid musical consumer! … herself as she is growing up in Moonstone, Colorado, a fictional community based on Cather’s hometown of Red Cloud, …
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John William Boone & Cather
… Boone & Cather "for I shall be the first... " In Cather’s My Ántonia , narrator Jim Burden encounters the ancient … is "On Working the Land." From the Georgics comes the My Ántonia 's epigraph, “Optima dies . . . prima fugit.” The … a 1918 review for The Dial , Randolph Bourne writes of My Ántonia , “Here at last is an American novel, redolent …
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