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A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… 1.  In addition to program notes on selections related to Cather’s works, this recent interview reveals more about Red … on a Fulbright and then to Vienna, where she first read Willa Cather’s novel,  The Song of the Lark .  “That is when I …
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Annotations from the Archives: Homesteading and Home-Building in the Archives

… Annotations from the Archives: Homesteading and Home-Building in the Archives … in the newly-formed Webster County. Several of our earliest collections feature museum objects and papers related to the … questions about the collection or to learn more about our collections which may not yet be online; you can reach Tracy …
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Virtual Author Series: David McKay Powell

… Online Now Learn more about the art form that inspired Willa Cather during her entire life! Author David McKay Powell … is free but requires registration.  Throughout her fiction, Willa Cather mentioned forty-seven operas. References to …
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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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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones

… for overnight stays. When developed and conjoined to the National Willa Cather Center’s Farmers and Merchants Bank next door, the …
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Potter Block Ceremonial Groundbreaking

… or Heritage Tourism Development Director, Jarrod McCartney, at jmccartney@redcloudnebraska.com . Photo … Committee), Jay Yost (Heritage Tourism Advisory Committee), Jarrod McCartney (Heritage Tourism Development Director), …
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Youth and the Bright Medusa

… is a collection of eight short stories by the prolific Willa Cather. Four of the pieces contained in this collection were … The Troll Garden (1905). However, it makes sense that Cather would place these short stories next to each other. …
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The Professor's House

… over the course of a few years, is an excellent example of Cather’s ability to use complex structures and a simplistic but powerful narrative. Cather is selective in her descriptions and the characters … fill in the gaps.  The Professor's House  is a true show of Willa Cather's skill as an accomplished writer. Download …
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Dane Church

… cemetery are known locally as the Dane Church. During Cather's time in the area, the church hired a Czech … Ondrak to paint an altarpiece, "Christ in the Garden." When Willa Cather took her father to see it, Charles Cather observed …
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The Song of the Lark

… In this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extraordinary heroines. Thea … and piercingly true as the light in a desert canyon, Cather takes us into the heart of a woman coming to know her …
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