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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday
… Image Willa Cather, c. 1912 Image Talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, President, Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events … We are in the midst of the centenaries of these books and about to celebrate the sesquicentennial of Cather’s birth. …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/26/2023
Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — … Gere, Cather visits Brownville, Nebraska. A feature story about Brownville titled "The Old River Metropolis" was … Lyra Garber, receives serial publication in Century at about the same time. In May, Cather receives the Pulitzer …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Book Club Resources
… childhood home, the inspiration for the opening scene of Song of the Lark and “Old Mrs. Harris.” The Burlington Depot, the … book club visit to Red Cloud. O Pioneers! O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark My Ántonia My Ántonia …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/03/2023
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
Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration July 21, 2022 The Willa Cather Childhood Home is a national treasure, one of … 30-minute narrated tour of the Willa Cather Childhood Home. About the Willa Cather Childhood Home Opened in 1967 and …
Posted: 07/21/2022
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
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
Music in Willa Cather's Writing
… people and cultures in which the irrepressible Thea Kronborg immerses herself as she is growing up in Moonstone, … for Thea's musical education in Chicago. Playlist I Part II: "The Song of the Lark" The playlist for Part II of The Song of the Lark portrays Thea Kronborg’s coming of age amidst continued piano study, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/09/2023
Historic Sites
… Historic Sites Since our organization's founding as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, we have been at the forefront … to Willa Cather's life and writing. “Every time I talked about Cather in Webster County,” Mildred Bennett said in an … special train whistle alerted parishioners that Mass was about to begin. Anna Sadilek and John Pavelka, the couple …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023