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Guided Seasonal Tour

… Image Guided Seasonal Tour Ántonia's Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the … to Nebraska from Bohemia (the Czech Republic today) in 1880. While  My Ántonia takes place in the late 19th …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are commemorating acclaimed novelist Willa … The National Endowment for the Humanities Big Read of My Ántonia : September 1, 2024-June 30, 2025 — Programs and …
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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!

… Depot is on several guided tours, including our new My Ántonia tour. Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season! … Cather Childhood Home reopened last year on Willa Cather's 150th birthday—December 7, 2023—after an extensive 16-month …
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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

… 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 … contains four boxes of correspondence dating from the late 1940s to the late 1980s, contains hundreds of recollections …
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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

… Kaatsbaan Arts Center, and UCLA. Readings performed by Alexandra Om Bailey and Scott Tanner. Cather selections are …
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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

… .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career … literature and correspondence remain the subject of scholarly inquiry. Her writing has been translated into more …
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