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Guided Willa Cather Tours
… Guided Willa Cather Tours The National Willa Cather Center and many of our … County countryside, including settings from My Ántonia, O Pioneers!, One of Ours, short stories "Neighbour Rosicky" … is always ready to create a customized field trip for K-12 students! Whether it is a special stop to the restored …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/04/2024
Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday
… Image Willa Cather, c. 1912 Image Talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, President, Willa … her prairie-plains novels ( O Pioneers! [1913], The Song of the Lark [1915], and especially My Ántonia [1918]) had …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/26/2023
Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas … Gere, and Dorothy Canfield. 1892 — Willa Cather becomes literary editor of the Hesperian , student publication of … poems titled April Twilights , is published. Cather meets lifelong companion Edith Lewis. 1905 — Cather’s first …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Reading Willa Cather: A Sesquicentennial Celebration
… Image Willa Cather Image Join us at the Boston Athenaeum Special Events … HERE The Boston Athenaeum is pleased to partner with The National Willa Cather Center to commemorate the sesquicentennial of Willa Cather's …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/07/2023
Reading Willa Cather: A 150th Birthday Celebration
… Image Willa Cather wearing necklace from Sarah Orne Jewett, c. … HERE Join us for this sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured … overview of her life and work will explore her turbulent biography and uniquely American voice. Sprinkled into the …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/07/2023
Book Club Resources
… childhood home, the inspiration for the opening scene of Song of the Lark and “Old Mrs. Harris.” The Burlington Depot, the … book club visit to Red Cloud. O Pioneers! O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark My Ántonia My Ántonia …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023
Reading Willa Cather with Mary Stuart Masterston & Jeremy Davidson
… Image Willa Cather, Mary Stuart Masterston, Jeremy Davidson, Hailey McAvoy, Jonathan Lawlor, Nomin … with musical performance Special Events Saturday, Oct 21, 2023 | 7 - 8:30pm Kaatsbaan Cultural Park Black Box … of the 20th century. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , Death Comes for the …
Posted: 09/27/2023
Last Updated: 09/27/2023
Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes
… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie "We come and go, but the land is always here...” —O Pioneers! Visit Red Cloud and immerse yourself in the …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 09/10/2023
50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and … celebration—of a commemorative stamp September 6, 2023 In 1969, the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors pursued … if they had never happened before,’ wrote Willa Cather in O Pioneers ! and she practiced what she preached. Miss Cather …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023
“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… Image Front cover of the September 5, 1923 issue of the Nation “Nebraska: The End of the First … plains, under its clear skies, in contact with the hardy pioneers who subdued its frontiers. And her voice, at once …
Posted: 09/05/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023