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Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift
… Image Kohout at Willa Cather's grave in Jaffrey, NH Image Viewing Cather's bronze … until Kohout was in college that she encountered Cather’s writing for the first time. “Like many students, my entry …
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Annotations from the Archives: October is American Archives Month
… and by mailed questionnaire. Beginning her research into Willa Cather's life soon after Cather's death, Bennett realized … collection of Cather family letters that inform Cather's writing. In this 1934 letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood, …
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Support
… Support Support the NWCC Located in Cather’s childhood … the Center provides almost 20,000 square feet of space that includes a public museum, archive, research center, … arts center. The Center occupies Red Cloud’s historic “Moon Block,” an 1887 structure that was fully restored and given …
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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
… their migration. Like the character she inspired in My Ántonia , Emily Caroline Smith Cather moved to Nebraska … the Garbers in A Lost Lady , the Burdens and Miners in My Ántonia , and Dr. Archie in The Song of the Lark . … as Emmaline Burden, is an important character in My Ántonia as the grandmother of the novel's narrator, Jim …
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Reading Willa Cather
… Cather’s groundbreaking fiction (including O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , and Death …
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Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources
… Detective" Educators can put these resources to use in myriad ways. Bellringers utilitizing archival resources are … text. This cartoon , though published thirty years before My Ántonia , draws inspiration from a popular motif that … does a threshing machine work?" The page below, related to My Ántonia, is an example of an FAQ Sheet exercise. Not only …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather
… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short Biography of Willa Cather 1873–1947 Willa Cather was born in Back Creek …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s … growing number of people world-wide,” Camp said. “I offered my support for Willa Cather’s statue because reading her … novels and stories in the late 1990s changed the course of my life. The opportunity to support a work of art in …
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Meet our 2024 Humanities Interns!
… Sarah Pacholski (left) and Sophie Ryan at our 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference in June Meet our 2024 Humanities … Interns! June 12, 2024 The Humanities Internship at the National Willa Cather Center offers an experiential learning …
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