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Group and Motorcoach Tours
… Group and Motorcoach Tours Discover the World of Willa Cather on the American Prairie Embark on a literary oasis and introduce your group to Pulitzer …
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A Special Challenge Grant Opportunity
… be received by December 31. Thank you! DONATE This year the Cather Center proudly completed a nationwide “Big Read” of … experience, and the power of historical reflection through Willa Cather’s prose. Our work doesn’t stop here. With your … put books in classrooms to allow all students access to the literary treasures that reflect our national story. Image …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist
… Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist October 16 is Ask-An-Archivist Day! October 16, 2025 October is American Archives Month, a time when archivists across the country … educating patrons and the general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the archives to local history …
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Annotations from the Archive: Back to School
… to school. In just such a moment, Willa Cather’s earliest known letter was written at the end of August 1888, to Helen Stowell , a family friend who had moved to California with her … judgment of small-town tongues. Cather’s letter to Helen Stowell reminds a reader of the classic “How I Spent My Summer …
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Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights
… April Twilights April 8, 2025 Though Willa Cather is known worldwide as a novelist, her first published work was … New York Times and other national papers and journals, as well as locally in Pittsburgh. Her good friend George Seibel … untitled poems. A manuscript of “The Swedish Mother” is a well-loved poem that was added to the collection in the 1923 …
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Unseen & Underfoot: The Hidden Diversity of the Plains
… Helicotylenchus, the "spiral" nematode, collected at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie A special science exhibition in the … Old Northwest Quarterly, Whirlwind, and Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest (forthcoming 2025). David …
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My Ántonia: The Story of a Great American Novel
… Image Willa Cather Free Event at the Joslyn! Special Events Saturday, … 1967) Willa Cather’s My Ántonia , on view in Hawks Pavilion Gallery H8, and plan to attend a variety of special programs … Services; and the rehabilitation of the Willa Cather Childhood Home, a National Historic Landmark through a “Save …
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The National Endowment for the Arts Big Read: My Ántonia
… student pricing is available for the tour. Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National … tour and three new exhibits that celebrate Cather's 1918 novel. Schedule of Big Read Kick-Off Events (Spend an …
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"Books Old and New"
… Home Image Willa Cather in Pittsburgh "Books Old and New" From The Home Monthly August 9, 2024 Today is … than meat and flour." —Willa Cather, "Old Books and New," The Home Monthly , May 1897 Here is a complete reprint … those that have been tested and tried." Books Old and New. Helen Delay "My book and heart shall never part." —New …
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Annotations from the Archive: Association Copies
… and publishing world. An “association copy” is a broad term used by book collectors and archivists to describe …
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