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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather
… Faulkner and Wharton. Life & Literature Recent News Shop Books & Gifts The Willa Cather Foundation is a … Sites Historic Sites Reader Resources Reader Resources Plan Your Visit Plan Your Visit Cather's Writings Cather's … 7, 2023), the Willa Cather Childhood Home reopened for guided tours after a 16-month restoration. This National …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here to learn about historic site tour … On December 7, Cather’s 150th birthday will be fêted with guided holiday tours—including of the Childhood Home—and a …
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Finding Aids
… Boris Hambourg, ? Heinemann, William, 1863-1920 Hess, Julia Myra Hibben, Jenny Davidson Hibben, John Grier Hills, Laura … Henry Goddard Lesser, Joseph Litchfield, Ethel Marantz, Sammy Masaryk, T. G. (Tomáš Garrigue), 1850-1937 McEnerney, Genevieve Green Hamilton, 1871-1941 McNemy, Helen Sprague (Mrs. Leon) Mellen, Mary Virginia Auld, …
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Guided Seasonal Tour
… Image Guided Seasonal Tour Ántonia's Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by … We Live" theme. The novel is set in Black Hawk, Nebraska, a town Willa Cather modeled after her childhood hometown of … and plan to follow a tour guide from site to site. Tours last approximately 90 minutes. Book This Tour Adults: …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration
… Though associated with the Great Plains, American author Willa Cather spent much of her childhood in Frederick County, … which receives generous support from the Marion Park Lewis Foundation. Andrew Jewell , a highly respected Willa Cather …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … said in an interview, “I had searched for books telling about the beauty of the country I loved, its romance, and … as if surrounded by nature, at home in the Nebraska prairie.” Cather’s likeness will join less than a dozen …
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Historic Sites
… from the ages of ten to sixteen. The house is described in detail in the short stories “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best Years,” and Cather's attic bedroom is described in detail in her 1915 novel The Song of the Lark. The home was … a diverse schedule that includes theater, music, lectures, gallery exhibits, and much more. The Opera House was donated …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost … by singularities. When Philip Roth died in 2018, New Yorker editor David Remnick held that “he was in … of The Song of the Lark , The Professor's House , and Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny enclave of French …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail
… the Archives: Fan Mail August 22, 2022 Our archives are home to not only Willa Cather’s letters, but to many of the … family struggled to survive, was the author of hundreds of stories and poems, the proceeds of which helped to keep the … Collection Kate M. Cleary: a Literary Biography with Selected Works , by Susanne George-Bloomfield …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… A Review from 1913 AUTHOR: Richard King p. 3 TITLE: Books and Magazines AUTHOR: Bertha Torrence p. 4 … 17.4 Fall 1973 Editor Miriam Mountford: Your WCPM Membership p. 1 Cather Commemorative Stamp--First … Sell p. 6 Rev. Morris Cather of Gore, Virginia to give guided tours of that area p. 6 With the Scholars... p. 8 …
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