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Meet our 2024 Humanities Interns!

… 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

… Hampshire, join us for a sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured … of Cather's life and times will explore her turbulent biography and uniquely American voice. Sprinkled into the … scholar at UCLA and Vice President of the National Willa Cather Center Board of Governors. As Willa Cather …
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Hommage: Willa Cather

… their birth centenaries. The authors chosen in 2023 were: Willa Cather (1873–1947) Federico Garcia Lorca (1889–1936) Wislawa … Szymborska (1923–2012) Graphic artists from around the world (engravers, printmakers, photographers, etc.) created …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… moved to Nebraska from Virginia in 1883. Her final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. …
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Historic Sites

… an American author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the Cather family … restored exterior finishes, but will also offer accessible tours for those with mobility limitations. “When she went … removing redundant facilities from major lines. To save the building from destruction, it was moved from its original …
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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 Restoration … 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

… , 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

… 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 … he wrote, “I am sending to you today . . . six items of my work which I want to present to the Willa Cather …
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Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather

… 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

… the country—Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, among many other locations. Beginning in the 1980s, International Willa … for Webster County, Nebraska, northwest of Red Cloud. In April 1883, Cather moved with her extended family—mother, … was then concentrating on poetry—her first book,  April Twilights , appeared from a vanity press in 1903. It was …
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