Search Results

13 results found

Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… words. The opening reception will feature remarks by Ashley Olson, executive director of the National Willa Cather …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is Nebraska's foremost … by singularities. When Philip Roth died in 2018, New Yorker editor David Remnick held that “he was in … of  The Song of the Lark ,  The Professor's House , and  Death Comes for the Archbishop ; the tiny enclave of French …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… Image Willa's Cradle, by Betty Kort Image Out in the Kitchen, by … Nov 4, 2023 | All day In 2007, photographer and Willa Cather Foundation executive director Betty Kort created … particularly the visual arts. As Cather chose to view the world through the eyes of a visual artist, painting pictures …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … Wide Interest in Willa Cather p. 3  10th Anniversary of Foundation p. 3  Future Event with John G. Neihardt p. 4  … p. 1  Conference Schedule p. 1  A Cornish Childhood p. 2  Gallery Holds "Feelings": Four Lucy Gayheart Paintings by …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are … the  Willa Cather Foundation’s  Campaign for the Future .  Book clubs and teachers around the country are encouraged to … from Cather's fiction, journalism, and letters written or set in Pittsburgh between 1896 and 1929 • Birthday cookies …
Posted:
Last Updated:

71st Annual Spring Conference Schedule

… Spring Conference Schedule Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather in Dialogue with America 250 Each day of the spring … PM Welcome and Opening Plenary: "Cancer and Caregiving: Willa Cather's My Mortal Enemy" with Heather Althoff*- RCOH … Work - RCOH Auditorium   Sacred Blood on the Floor of the World in Death Comes for the Archbishop Sarah Junek, …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… Through the Pages of American Literature Discover Willa Cather and Red Cloud "I'm not exaggerating, Carrie, when I … merge with the pleasures of a quiet country town and its prairie surroundings. To visit  Red Cloud  is to experience … the very buildings and landscapes that Willa Cather wrote about or lived in — whether it is her childhood bedroom and …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … Jeremiah Smith   1793 Ephemera OBJ-50-1000-008 "The Truth About Horace" Poem Written Inside Book Cover Eugene Field   … and journals, Union College, Western Literature, Prairie Schooner, etc   Box 46 Cassettes and Recordings …
Posted:
Last Updated:

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

… gasping at the daring but simple exposition she gave the meaning of art.” ‘No Nebraska child now growing up will ever … graveyards of my own county and see on the headstones the names of fine old men I used to know: ‘Eric Ericson, born …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… local organizations or simply had to purchase their own small selection of reading materials. In 1913, the new Red Cloud YMCA created a library in one of its rooms, with material donated by the P.E.O. club, … It's unclear what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is …
Posted:
Last Updated: