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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A National Historic … Prairie, care for priceless collections, and allow a living memorial to operate for the benefit of generations to …
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Finding Aids

…  1762-1973 Bulk dates:  1918-1943 Finding Aid created by Tracy Sanford Tucker, 2015 Copyright: National Willa Cather Center Extent: … Willa Cather, possibly Edith Lewis Finding Aid:  created by Tracy Tucker 2013. Updated by Christina Wolak 2022. …
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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 … reading programs designed around a single NEA Big Read book, with an aim to broaden our understanding of our world, …
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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

… of sculpture at Creighton University in Omaha, was selected from over seventy artists to create the Willa … of Virginia, among others, many of her most well-known stories are about Nebraska and its people. I hope her … Nebraska-Lincoln faculty members Andrew Jewell and Melissa Homestead praised Cather's selection as a representative of …
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Historic Sites

… Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the … nation's largest collection of nationally-designated historic sites dedicated to an American author. Willa Cather … hardware store for decades. “When I go about among little Nebraska towns . . . the thing I miss most is the opera …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … and deliberate, unconscious. It must, indeed, be a way of living" (78). The Early Years, 1873-1890 Cather was born in …
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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

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents Table of Contents This Table of Contents for the Willa Cather Review was compiled by Virgil and Dolores … ISSUE Guest Editor: Ronald W. Butler  TITLE: Edith Lewis Living  AUTHOR: Patricia L. Yongue p. 12  TITLE: Edith …
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Meet Joanna Blitch: Illustrator of Special Edition of Youth and the Bright Medusa

… the Bright Medusa,  Willa Cather's 1920 collection of eight stories, and her first publication with Alfred A. Knopf. Joanna A. Blitch of Greensboro, North Carolina, was selected from artists from around the country who submitted … Art in Winston-Salem. Those paintings, and that preserved home, gave me lots of vital clues about how people in …
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