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Guided Seasonal Tour
… Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts … drawn readers into this classic novel for more than 100 years. As part of our NEA Big Read programming, guests are … W. 3rd Street This is the site where Anna Sadilek Pavelka’s first child was baptized and where Anna was married. This …
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Cather Sesquicentennial
… , as well as publication centenaries of A Lost Lady and April Twilights and Other Poems . Willa Cather’s prolific writing career and …
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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!
… on several guided tours, including our new My Ántonia tour. Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season! Explore • … cities in Europe where I used to love to go . . ." -Willa Cather in a letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood While … HOME GUEST HOUSE BOOK THE VILLA WILLA Historic Site Tours Experience Willa Cather's world We offer several tour …
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Willa Cather Writes the Immigrant Experience in Rural Nebraska
… Big Read Program Special Events Wednesday, Nov 6, 2024 | 12:30 - 1:30pm CT Hastings College - Wilson Auditorium 814 … immigrants to the United States would hurt the economy. Cather grew up around many different cultures and … designed around a single NEA Big Read book. Cather’s My Ántonia was among the 50 titles selected for the 2024 NEA …
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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. … as a member of the Board of Governors of the Willa Cather Foundation for 22 years, has edited the Willa Cather Review …
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Annotations from the Archives: October is American Archives Month
… Archives Month, a time when we educate students and patrons about the value of archives. It’s easy to make the … the very fabric of democracy, since the French Revolution ushered in the idea of centralized, publicly accessible … you might imagine! In our organization's earliest days, Mildred Bennett, our founder, spent a great deal of time …
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Virtual Author Series: Terese Svoboda
… Image Author Series Thursday, Oct 17, 2024 | 7 - 8pm CT Register Online Now Join us for 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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Reading Willa Cather
… Join us in Arlington, Virginia for a 150th celebration of Willa Cather! Special Events Thursday, Sep 26, 2024 | 6 - … Information Join us for a sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather , one of the most singular and treasured … historian at UCLA and Vice President of the National Willa Cather Center Board of Governors. Free to attend! …
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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 … Quebec, and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, among others. Cather’s literature found national and international …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … and Twelfth Woman in the Collection June 7, 2023 A bronze sculpture of Willa Cather by artist Littleton Alston was …
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