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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 Willa … trip. We offer a variety of guided historic site tours, lodging, and events year round at the National Willa Cather …
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Willa Cather Writes the Immigrant Experience in Rural Nebraska
… A National Endowment for the Arts Big Read Program Special Events Wednesday, Nov 6, 2024 | 12:30 - 1:30pm CT Hastings … Olsen, director of education and engagement, will present, “Willa Cather Writes the Immigrant Experience in Rural … with Arts Midwest. The NEA Big Read supports community reading programs designed around a single NEA Big Read book. …
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Willa Cather, Wales, Wymore, and the World
… Presented by Steve Shively Special Events Saturday, Oct 19, 2024 | 2 - 3pm CT Great Plains Welsh Heritage Centre 307 … and through Wymore—which she alluded to in her novel My Ántonia. Now retired, Steve Shively taught English at …
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Annotations from the Archives: October is American Archives Month
… though, let’s think small. Since we will soon kick off our My Ántonia Big Read activities, let’s start there and focus on … Nebraska and their life on the Webster County farm. Typed notecards that were collected by researcher John March and …
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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 she searches for her father in the American West …
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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 - 7:30pm ET Arlington … a new standard in American literature. This performance of readings from Cather's fiction and letters follows readings …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather
… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short Biography of … translated into over forty languages. Widely celebrated for My Ántonia , Cather received the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, June 7, at 11:00 a.m. ET. Cather is the first Pulitzer Prize winner and … .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career …
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Meet our 2024 Humanities Interns!
… Conference in June Meet our 2024 Humanities Interns! June 12, 2024 The Humanities Internship at the National Willa … senior year of high school when her literature class read My Ántonia . Drawn in not only by Cather’s strong prose, Sophie …
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Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library
… emergence. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , Death Comes … of Governors. As Willa Cather spent many autumns (from 1917-late 1930s) on writing retreats at the Shattuck Inn …
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