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Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway
… the National Willa Cather Center and participate in guided town tours of six additional historic properties related to … The Center’s mobile app also offers a 30-minute narrated tour of the Willa Cather Childhood Home. While the initial …
Posted: 09/26/2022
Last Updated: 11/29/2023
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 Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Poudre Libraries — …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/26/2023
Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States … that would soon become the town of Red Cloud, Nebraska. 1871 — In Silas Garber’s dugout, Webster County and the … close friend. 1912 — Cather’s first novel, Alexander’s Bridge , appears in McClure’s as Alexander’s Masquerade . …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Book Club Resources
… in the Cather family’s Second Home with your book club; the location where Willa often returned to visit her family and …
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
… crown jewel of the Willa Cather Historic Sites and the best location to glean a more complete understanding of the daily …
Posted: 07/21/2022
Last Updated: 09/06/2023
Novels
… knows what to read in those short flashes of enthusiasm; how fully he must have found his life before he could let … all there was of it." Willa Cather Review, Vol. 60.3 Winter 2018 Willa Cather Review, Vol. 61.1 Summer 2018 Willa … paid off his mortgages and had ended pretty much where he began, with the land. He owned exactly six hundred and forty …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 08/28/2023
Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America
… to this day. Selected Shorts was conceived with a simple premise: take great stories by well-known and …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 08/21/2023
Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings
… understood the business of publishing and the need to be "known" by the general public. We know from Cather's … another Nebraska native, social worker Grace Abbott, as well as Helen Keller, Jane Addams, opera singer Ernestine … unless taken in the right setting, and she worried too about her own appearance. "Myself, I think the public …
Posted: 07/25/2023
Last Updated: 08/01/2023
Music in Willa Cather's Writing
… are wonderful companions on your daily commute! Enjoy! The Song of the Lark Image Part I: "Friends of Childhood" The playlist developed in conjunction with Part I of The Song of the Lark reflects the colorful people and cultures …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 07/09/2023