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One-Day Bus Tour to the National Willa Cather Center

… acclaimed novel My Ántonia . An all-inclusive fee of $175 includes round-trip transportation, lunch and dinner, guided …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are commemorating acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s 150th year with a host of special events throughout 2023 and 2024. December 7, 2023 marked the 150th anniversary of Willa Cather's birth. The year …
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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, Sep 26, 2024 | 6 - 7:30pm ET Arlington … 20th century. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction (including O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House …
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Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library

… left a portion of her estate to the town of Jaffrey to build the library, noting in her will that it “should … part of a pattern of philanthropists funding public library buildings in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth … many of the historic portraits and is part of the original building. We also house our history books on that floor and …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood … Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop , Willa Cather … is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. Events took place across the country throughout 2023-2024 to …
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Celebrating 150 Years of Willa Cather

… Image Presented in partnership with the Ames Writers Collective and Ames Public Library Special Events Wednesday, Feb 28, 2024 | 7 - 8pm Ames Public Library … and the critically acclaimed novels  One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . In …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost … a succession of other places found there too: the desert southwest of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House …
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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 Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events … and a free talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, president of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors at the National …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… and is buried near a crossroads. Cather, on whom almost nothing was lost, will later use this event in one of her … Nebraska State Journal . Her first regular column appears under the heading “One Way of Putting It.” Silas Garber’s …  — Knopf publishes Cather’s only book of essays,  Not Under Forty . In the book’s introduction, Cather states that for …
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Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration

… Image Willa Cather Image Join us at the Boston Athenaeum Special … Boston Athenaeum is pleased to partner with The National Willa Cather Center to commemorate the sesquicentennial of Willa Cather's birth. Cather is one of the most singular and …
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