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Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… the U.S. Capitol, June 7, 2023 Image A bronze statuette of Willa Cather by Littleton Alston Willa Cather Statue Dedication & … event if free of charge. Learn more about Willa Cather and Material Culture  and artist Betty Kort.  …
Posted: 09/27/2023
Last Updated: 10/06/2023

Willa Cather Biography

… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in  Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… Image Willa's Cradle, by Betty Kort Image Out in the Kitchen, by … Betty assumed this position after twenty-five years of teaching both English and art, almost entirely within the … Nebraska Arts Council, Betty exhibited forty mixed media works at the Walker Gallery in the Good Samaritan Hospital …
Posted: 07/14/2023
Last Updated: 08/30/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip … Red Cloud: Willa Cather's Window to the World June 7-11, 2010 P. 51 Prairie Writers' Workshop July 2010 p. 51 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are commemorating acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s 150th year with a host of special events throughout 2023 and 2024. December 7, 2023 marked the … for the Archbishop • Virtual Oct 20 — UNL Opera presents O Pioneers! , 7:00 p.m. • Red Cloud Opera House, Red Cloud, NE …
Posted: 05/24/2023
Last Updated: 12/31/2024

71st Annual Spring Conference Schedule

… schedule is accessible via the dropdown spaces below. Events marked with an asterisk (*) are open to the public. A … University   My Mortal Enemy: Advertising and Critical Reception Laurie Weber, Independent Scholar 2:15 PM Session … at 150 Susan Wood, Midland University 5:00 PM Gallery Artist Talk with Susan Hart- Red Cloud Opera House Art …
Posted: 04/27/2026
Last Updated: 05/26/2026

Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… - Willa Cather, letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood Red Cloud, Nebraska is not just a destination. It’s a place where … she was, in her own words, “always being pulled back into Nebraska.” You will be, too. BOOK THE CATHER SECOND HOME … sites and sounds that changed American literature. Take a detour from the scramble of urbanity and absorb the rolling …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/20/2026

Finding Aids

… finding aids are available for the collections below. A PDF file is available for download. Betty Kort Collection Date … biographical material and manuscripts Correspondence files, both personal and WCPM Photographs of mid-century … to the Fiction of Willa Cather (1993) Box 27—Research Files of Bennett and March 1 box of John March essay files 2 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… on Vermont in the Nation ,— the only interesting one so far in that dull and deadly series , the only one that … pastry shops of Prague or Vienna. The American lard pie never corrupted the Czech…” Her essay ends: "The population … grew from girlhood to maturity in Nebraska. Although her home is now in that mecca for the literary artisan, New …
Posted: 09/05/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… of the Auld Library  and the purchase of books. Charles Cather was elected the first president of the library board. … what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is significant; … the family's involvement with the Auld Library, and from Willa's own writing, just how much the Cather family valued …
Posted: 07/11/2023
Last Updated: 07/11/2023

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