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Willa Cather's Virginia Childhood: A Birthday Celebration

… Image Image A Presentation at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley … the Shenandoah Valley also includes access to the museum's galleries and gardens. Walk-ins welcome as space permits. …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short … her family moved to rural Webster County, Nebraska, and later to the town of Red Cloud, where she lived until … personal and cultural environments. While six of Cather’s novels were inspired by her Nebraska experiences, her …
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Willa Cather Biography

… published which have changed just how Cather is seen and understood. Two of the most prominent recent volumes are … a countryside and a people. That relationship, he knew, cannot be gone after and found; it must be long and deliberate, … The Song of the Lark  (150)—the Willa Cather who was about forty years of age was ready to do what was needed to …
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Willa on Wednesday at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home

… Image The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home Image Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture Third … , MA 01240 United States PURCHASE TICKETS The National Willa Cather Center is pleased to partner with The Mount , … times. Cipkowski's lecture will explore Cather’s turbulent biography and uniquely American voice, which set a new …
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Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library

… Hampshire, join us for a sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured … of Cather's life and times will explore her turbulent biography and uniquely American voice. Sprinkled into the … scholar at UCLA and Vice President of the National Willa Cather Center Board of Governors. As Willa Cather …
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Reading Willa Cather: A 150th Birthday Celebration

… Image Willa Cather wearing necklace from Sarah Orne Jewett, c. … HERE Join us for this sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured … overview of her life and work will explore her turbulent biography and uniquely American voice. Sprinkled into the …
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National Willa Cather Center Celebrates National Poetry Month

… Image National Willa Cather Center Celebrates National Poetry Month March … widely recognized that writing poetry represented some of Willa Cather’s earliest literary endeavors. Even after … Cather’s poetry provides clues that help us to define her biography. While socially isolating, Cather fans should …
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Virtual Author Series: Brad Bigelow

… Online Now Delve into the life and work of an important Willa Cather scholar with the return of our virtual author … his new book, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts,  a biography that chronicles Virginia Faulkner’s career as a … what author Timothy Schaffert calls “mad devotion to Willa Cather.”  Spend an evening with Bigelow as he …
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Finding Aids

… for the collections below. A PDF file is available for download. Betty Kort Collection Date range:  1762-1973 Bulk …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist

… country focus on educating patrons and the general public about the value of archives. It’s easy to connect the … the questions she gets most often. How do you pronounce Cather? According to Henry Blackman Sell in a short article … frequently that I keep a hard copy at home and at work. Did Willa Cather say, "Anybody can love the mountains, but it's …
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