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Historic Sites

… built in 1883 and used until 1903. The design is modest and simple, with “poor man’s stained-glass” applied to the windows made from a simple white paint featuring swirl designs. A surprise to …
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Invitation to Bid - J.L. Miner House

… Image Invitation to Bid - J.L. Miner House October 15, 2023 Invitation to Bid General Contractor for Porch … Miner House serves as a setting for Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia and as a result is visited by more than 8,000 …
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Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong

… The Song of the Lark and had particularly enjoyed  Death Comes for the Archbishop, a novel he would love to see adapted for the big …
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Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal

… “crazy-wall” of evidence and yarn-linked people, places, and ideas, and you get a sense of the connections … but had recently finished a watercolor of the Cathers’ home (the Cather Second Home on Seward Street) and visited with acquaintances of …
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Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather

… Wednesday, Feb 28, 2024 | 7 - 8pm Ames Public Library 515 Douglas Avenue Ames , IA 50010 United States For Further … One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . In partnership with the Ames Writers Collective …
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Willa Cather Biography

… House , and  Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny enclave of French culture that was Quebec City at the … of a more penetrating sense of human life and human destiny. Willa Cather read and thought a great deal during …
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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday

… Image Willa Cather, c. 1912 Image Talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, President, Willa … [1913],  The Song of the Lark  [1915], and especially  My Ántonia  [1918]) had established the decade before. By the …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Cloud are officially organized. 1872  — Charles Cather and Mary Virginia Boak marry on December 5 at the home of the … poems titled  April Twilights , is published. Cather meets lifelong companion Edith Lewis. 1905  — Cather’s first … and muckraking journals. 1907  —  The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science  is …
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Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration

… Join us at the Boston Athenaeum Special Events Tuesday, Dec 12, 2023 | 6 - 7pm Boston Athenaeum 10 1/2 Beacon Street Boston , MA 02108 United States … the 20th century. Her groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers!, My Antonia, One of Ours, Death Comes for the Archbishop ) …
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Reading Willa Cather: A 150th Birthday Celebration

… Willa Cather wearing necklace from Sarah Orne Jewett, c. 1912 At the Tufts Library in Weymouth, MA Special Events … emergence. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers!, My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , Death Comes …
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