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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… off solely for Cather as the eldest of seven siblings. The simple room with board walls and sloping ceilings was for a …
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Finding Aids
… to Willa Cather like letters, clothing, jewelry, artwork, manuscripts, address books, journals, and sales ledgers for … Access Restrictions: The record group is open to research. Cite as: [item #], Betty Kort Collection. Willa … Lipstick case Writing equipment OBJ-50-1000-059 Pen holder Personal objects OBJ-50-1000-060-1 Small metal …
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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 the National Endowment for the Arts for their 2024 Big Read initiative. In partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read supports community …
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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration
… Romney and Winchester.” Indeed, Cather’s final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940), is set near her birthplace just a few miles …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… She also holds a writing pen and paper. The Nebraska state flower (goldenrod) and the state bird (Western meadowlark) …
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Historic Sites
… author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the Cather family moved in. … 1965. Efforts to save the depot were extensive, requiring relocation and a full restoration—the result of the railroad's … Carrie, Mary, and Irene Miner. The Miners inspired the Harling family of My Ántonia . Cather dedicated My Ántonia …
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Willa Cather Biography
… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost citizen," wrote author and … evinced. Viola Roseboro', later a colleague of Cather's at McClure's and probably the person who brought Cather to the … tell his own story orally; having done so, she wrote his autobiography, one ironically titled My Autobiography . It …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail
… towns must, I think, have a very keen and definite feeling about it, but it is almost hopeless to try to communicate it … from bookseller Charles Bayly, Jr., was especially welcome, coming as it had just after publication. “If the … but at other times, friends thought to include notes about Cather’s writing too, sometimes in the midst of …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… 2.1 Spring 1958 Editor: Mildred R. Bennett Officers and Board … Coverage p. 3 Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4 Mailing of Newsletter p. 4 … 12.1 Spring 1968 Editor: Miriam Mountford An Original Manuscript--Poem … of Grace AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13 John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15 WCPM announces 1985 trip …
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Meet Joanna Blitch: Illustrator of Special Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa
… our centenary publication of Youth and the Bright Medusa, Willa Cather's 1920 collection of eight stories, and her first … edition will be released this fall with Blitch's evocative images. We asked Blitch to share more about her artistic …
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