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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
… Image Image Image Join us in Arlington, Virginia for a 150th celebration of Willa Cather! Special Events Thursday, … Cather’s groundbreaking fiction (including O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , and Death …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… them. And so I wrote O Pioneers! .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, … who have volunteered their services for the past three years to bring the unveiling of the statue to … incorporated. These include a turquoise jacket that was a gift to Cather from her editors, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, …
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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
… Image Image Jaffrey Public Library, Jaffrey, NH (courtesy image) Image The Jaffrey Public Library, Jaffrey, New Hampshire FREE-OF-CHARGE Special … Tuesday, Jun 25, 2024 | 6:30 - 7:30pm ET The Jaffrey Public Library 38 Main Street Jaffrey , NH 03452 United States …
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Hommage: Willa Cather
… Image Song of the Lark, Selfsearch | Maria Gurikhina | Print … Graphic artists from around the world (engravers, printmakers, photographers, etc.) created work related to …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Cather house is vividly described in Cather's novel, The Song of the Lark , and short stories, “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best … is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. Events took place across the country throughout 2023-2024 to …
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Historic Sites
… a small group of like-minded individuals incorporated in 1955, initiating the preservation of the places associated … John Pavelka, the couple who inspired characters in both My Ántonia and "Neighbour Rosicky," were married in this …
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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
… , made a low key visit to Red Cloud and the National Willa Cather Center last week. Wong and Giamatti, who joined … Streams, enjoyed tours of the Cather historic sites, the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie , and a quiet stay in the … the adaption of David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of John Adams . …
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