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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … numerous Cather-related historic properties, expansion of educational programming and exhibits, development of visitor … help the National Willa Cather Center provide classroom resources for teachers, preserve historic sites associated …
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Serena's Album

… family came to Nebraska between 1880 and 1885; her father farmed near Bostwick in Nuckolls County. After attending … her album. Serena White lived her entire life in the area, never marrying. She died in 1924. Cather scholar Kari … settlement known as “Elora” — Mrs. Keifer gives it as her home — was essentially a post office in search of a town, …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest … Margorie Knopf, Blanche W., 1894-1966 Lazard, Claude, Mrs. Leah, Henry Goddard Lesser, Joseph Litchfield, Ethel … Roseboro', Viola Rosický, Rose, 1875-1954 Rubens, Pauline Meyer Rubin, Florance Rumbold, Hugo Russo, M. Ryce, Lucius …
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Guided Seasonal Tour

… Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts … drawn readers into this classic novel for more than 100 years.   As part of our NEA Big Read programming, guests are … W. 3rd Street This is the site where Anna Sadilek Pavelka’s first child was baptized and where Anna was married. This …
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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

… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … —Watch a recording of the ceremony and scroll down for a gallery of images and more information— The Congressional … 7, 2023, at 11:00 a.m ET. A special thanks to Willa Cather Foundation member Peg O’Dea Lippert, for conceiving the idea …
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Historic Sites

… thing I miss most is the opera house.” —Willa Cather, 1929 Moon Block Adjoining the Opera House is the Moon Block, named for its original investor, Michigan Senator John Moon. The Moon Block is home to the National Willa Cather …
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Willa Cather Biography

… was as good as his word, since Cather's second book,  The Troll Garden , a collection of stories, appeared from McClure, … containing both new stories and others revised from  The Troll Garden , in 1920. It was followed by  One of Ours , a …
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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

… Officers and Board of Governors p. 1  Aims p. 1  Progress Report and Building Fund News p. 1  Publications p. 2  … Programs p. 2  World Wide Interest in Cather p. 3  Annual Conference p. 4  Acknowledgements p. 4  … Contemporaries p. 27 Call for papers--International Seminar 2009 p. 28 The archive-Edith Lewis camera p. 32 President's …
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