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Guided Seasonal Tour

… Image Guided Seasonal Tour Ántonia's Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was … We Live" theme. The novel is set in Black Hawk, Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of Red Cloud. More than that, Cather's memorable …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are … for the Future .  Book clubs and teachers around the country are encouraged to explore discussion questions and  … download the National Willa Cather Center app for virtual tours . Organizations or communities that would like to …
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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 … Coordinator, at npowers@willacather.org . PLAN YOUR TRIP   My Ántonia Holiday Tour Festive Sites from a beloved novel … interiors and locations in Cather's beloved novel, My Ántonia . Several sites will be decorated for the season …
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Willa Cather Writes the Immigrant Experience in Rural Nebraska

… 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

… 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 the myriad things we’ve learned about the novel—and its … editions of each one, and the artwork that was featured in My Ántonia. All of these publication-related items make up …
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Virtual Author Series: Terese Svoboda

… Online Now Join us for a discussion of Svoboda’s answer to Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia ! Readers will delight in … Kent as "astounding;" The Washington Post regarded her biography Anything That Burns You as "magisterial." …
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Reading Willa Cather

… Cather’s groundbreaking fiction (including O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , and Death …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short Biography of … . After the publication of her first novel, Alexander’s Bridge , Cather left the magazine to focus full-time on her …
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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 … at 11:00 a.m., and 1:00 and 3:00 p.m.  World renowned author Willa Cather spent her formative years in Red Cloud …
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