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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!

… You can, too—in any season or time of year, whether for the first time or on a return trip. We offer a variety of guided … classic novel My Ántonia , published in 1918, was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts …
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Willa Cather Writes the Immigrant Experience in Rural Nebraska

… 50 titles selected for the 2024 NEA Big Read , which has a theme of “Where We Live” for the year.  The aim of the …
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Willa Cather, Wales, Wymore, and the World

… most significant American authors of the twentieth century, Willa Cather’s work was shaped by her Nebraska upbringing. Dr. … Cather Foundation for 22 years, has edited the Willa Cather Review , and has published several essays on Cather's life …
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Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift

… public health advocate for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With more free time on her hands, …
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Annotations from the Archives: October is American Archives Month

… Bennett, our founder, spent a great deal of time conducting interviews both in person and by mailed questionnaire. … from those who knew Cather both as a child and as an adult. Letters from Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, Dorothy Canfield … creation of the Ántonia character.  Of course Cather's own letters are a tremendous resource for our understanding of …
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Support

… Support Support the NWCC Located in Cather’s childhood hometown of Red Cloud, Nebraska, the … museum, archive, research center, classroom, bookstore, art gallery, and performing arts center. The Center occupies Red … an early twentieth century farmstead of an immigrant farm family in Nebraska. Our aim is to create a space that …
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Virtual Author Series: Terese Svoboda

… a discussion of Svoboda’s answer to Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia ! Readers will delight in the story of Harriet as …
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Emily Caroline Cather's Trunk

… the Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center for analysis in 2023. Object stabilization and preservation will cost $9,500.  … their migration. Like the character she inspired in  My Ántonia , Emily Caroline Smith Cather moved to Nebraska from …
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Reading Willa Cather

… Willa Cather! Special Events Thursday, Sep 26, 2024 | 6 - 7:30pm ET Arlington Public Library — Central Library 1015 … Cather’s groundbreaking fiction (including O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , and Death …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… . After the publication of her first novel, Alexander’s Bridge , Cather left the magazine to focus full-time on her …
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