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“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
A Visit with Sarah Arneson
… Image Sarah as Constanza from Mozart’s Abduction of the Seraglio A Visit … Arneson Red Cloud’s Very Own Operatic Soprano August 15, 2023 Sarah Arneson was born and raised in Red Cloud and has … Gynt” — referencing Norwegian immigrants as in Cather’s O Pioneers! Dvorak’s “Songs my Mother Taught Me” — Czech …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023
Novels
… Novels If you are an educator and would like to contribute a … Cather's Red Cloud for your group. Please contact us at 402-746-2653 for more information. One of Ours Claude Leaves … Document The Song of the Lark Review Questions 137.76 KB O Pioneers! Alexandra Tames the Wild Land "Bergson had spent …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/28/2023
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 …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2023
Willa Cather in Fine Books & Collections
… Summer 2023 Image Article in Fine Books & Collections Willa Cather in Fine Books & Collections Feature Article in Summer 2023 issue August 1, 2023 Willa Cather, the National Willa Cather Center, and some of our … remains closely associated with the Great Plains. The prairie town of Red Cloud, Nebraska inspired some of her …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023
Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… interesting dualities. She was intensely engaged with her small hometown, even as she became a traveler of the world; … answers. Old schoolmates, distant relatives, kindly people whom I had known in some part of the United States. . … to Houghton Mifflin's Alverda Van Tuyll, "In the first place, let me tell you how delighted I am that you get a …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023
One of Ours
… Image One of Ours Book Club Resources Claude Wheeler, the … he has been searching for all his life. In One of Ours (1922) Willa Cather explores the destiny of a grandchild of the pioneers, a young Nebraskan whose yearnings impel him toward …
Posted: 05/03/2023
Last Updated: 07/21/2023
Alexander's Bridge
… Image Alexander's Bridge Book Club Resources Alexander’s Bridge (1912) is Cather’s first novel about an ambitious engineer, … made. Though Cather later asked for her second novel, O Pioneers! to be considered her first real attempt at a book, …
Posted: 07/15/2023
Last Updated: 07/21/2023
Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns!
… between the University of Nebraska and the National Willa Cather Center. Nolan Bennett , originally from Kearney, … on the rolling plains of the Midwest” and is enjoying the prairie and farmland around Red Cloud, and being close to nature. Since arriving in Red Cloud he has increased his Cather reads from four novels to seven, after first being …
Posted: 07/07/2023
Last Updated: 07/07/2023
68th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… 1, 2023 | 9am - Saturday, Jun 3, 2023 | 9pm National Willa Cather Center 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 … texts that Cather published in 1923, such as her revised book of poetry, April Twilights and Other Poems . The … and cultural experiences of the first generations of settler society to grow up on the grasslands. Uniquely, …
Posted: 06/08/2022
Last Updated: 05/31/2023