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… tours for those with mobility limitations. “When she went away from it for good, she would leave something that she … church in 1922. Today, Grace Episcopal Church is used for private services. A homily is delivered here annually in … Catholic Church was dedicated in 1907, St. Juliana became a private residence until it was donated to the National Willa …
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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

… Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong August 29, 2019 Actors Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong, of Showtime's hit … , and a quiet stay in the Cather Second Home guest house.  "My mother was a high school English teacher," Giamatti said. " My Ántonia was something she taught a lot, and so Cather was …
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Annotations from the Archives: On Reappraisal

… Image Grant Reynard's 1948 letter to Mildred Bennett Image Grant Reynard's "Mike's … them; eventually, Reynard said, “It percolated through my confusion that this great lady had done me a great … this experience on to students all over the country in my lectures in unending gratitude to Willa Cather.” As …
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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

… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in  Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
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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

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … Gere, and Dorothy Canfield. 1892  — Willa Cather becomes literary editor of the  Hesperian , student publication of … poems titled  April Twilights , is published. Cather meets lifelong companion Edith Lewis. 1905  — Cather’s first …
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Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration

… writers of the 20th century. Her groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers!, My Antonia, One of Ours, Death Comes for the …
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Reading Willa Cather: A 150th Birthday Celebration

… and gradual emergence. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers!, My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House …
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