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Willa Cather: Life & Literature

… and formative years in Nebraska influenced the novels   Sapphira and the Slave Girl   and   My Ántonia . MSV members: $5; all others: $10. …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor

… #4: Death Comes for the Archbishop As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed … , and Bellow’s  There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction , also a  New   York Times  Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag,  Debriefing , was published by …
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Book Club Resources

… Book Club Resources The National Willa Cather Center can provide materials for your book club … influenced the prolific writer. Sites include Cather’s childhood home, the inspiration for the opening scene of … in the Cather family’s Second Home with your book club; the location where Willa often returned to visit her family and …
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Reading Willa Cather with Mary Stuart Masterston & Jeremy Davidson

… Image Willa Cather, Mary Stuart Masterston, Jeremy Davidson, Hailey … Selections from fiction with musical performance Special Events Saturday, Oct 21, 2023 | 7 - 8:30pm Kaatsbaan … Nomin Samdan (piano). Selections curated by Willa Cather Foundation board of governors member  Peter Cipkowski . …
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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… virtual prairie tours any time with our Education Director, Tracy Tucker, who shares her beautiful images and informative …
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Pavelka Farmstead

… of life out of the dark cave into the sunlight.” — My Ántonia The Pavelka Farmstead and the fruit cave described … Hidden Treasures in Nebraska by Heritage Nebraska in 2010 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.  In …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… later won a medal in an Austrian shooting competition.  “My parents worked and saved so that I could go to college … “Songs my Mother Taught Me” — Czech immigrants as in My Ántonia and Mr. Schimerda was a violinist in the Prague … Thank you! We look forward to your homecoming and to your gift of classic opera on the Red Cloud Opera House stage in …
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Novels

… to contribute a lesson plan or activity based on teaching Willa Cather in your classroom, please contact director of … so far—he, who was so afraid of being fooled!" Willa Cather Review , Vol. 63.2 Summer 2022 Telling War Stories: The …
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Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America

… Space, New York City • In Person & Livestreamed Special Events Wednesday, Sep 27, 2023 | 7 - 8:30pm Peter Jay Sharp … acclaimed novels  One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . This special evening of short …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor

… Discussion #3: The Professor's House As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed … , and Bellow’s  There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction , also a  New   York Times  Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag,  Debriefing , was published by …
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