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Old Time Autumn 2023 Weekend events (see flyer)

Two days of free activities and events in Brownville, NE in a celebration of Willa Cather, including:

• Sunday, October 15 at 1:30 pm – National Willa Cather Center executive director Ashley Olson will present “Willa Cather’s Nebraska: How Life Inspired Fiction,” at the Brownville Town Hall • Free admission!

Help us welcome Tracy Daugherty as he discusses his book 148 Charles Street. This novel explores the friendship between Willa Cather and Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. Two different writers with distinct styles. Cather was the novelist while Sergeant was the muckraking journalist. Their friendship becomes tested after Cather fictionalizes a war that Sergeant covered. This is a story of how friendship endures through disagreements and misunderstandings. 

Enjoy a moderated conversation with artist Littleton Alston, whose bronze sculpture of Willa Cather—a twin of Alston’s sculpture recently installed in the U.S. Capitol—will be installed on the Museum of the Shenandoah trails in October.

THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT! 

Special thanks to our sponsors Arneson Family Farms, Tru-Built Construction, Dennis and Sally Hansen, First National Bank of Omaha, KHAS Radio, and Republican Valley Arts Council for their support!

Programming at the National Willa Cather's Red Cloud Opera House is made possible with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.

Produced in association with the Willa Cather Foundation, filmmaker Ken Burns hosts this sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most significant and treasured American writers of the 20th century. Cather crystallized the spirit of the American West with a singular voice in her body of poems, essays, short stories, and the critically acclaimed novels One of Ours, O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia.

As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s 150th year, we are pleased to announce a special virtual event series with acclaimed writer and biographer Benjamin Taylor! Join us in honoring Cather’s prolific writing career and contributions to American letters by attending one or all of these special studies focusing on a selection of Cather's most famous and beloved novels.

Learn more about the art form that inspired Willa Cather during her entire life! Author David McKay Powell will join us to talk about his recent book, Cather and Opera. This virtual event is free but requires registration. 

World-renowned opera soprano and Red Cloud native Sarah Arneson returns Friday, September 1, for a 7:30 pm performance with violinist Anne Hooper Webb.

Join us for an engaging conversation about Nebraska memoir with Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann, two writers with Nebraska roots who explore the world in order to learn more about their place in it. If you are interested in the same "human stories" Willa Cather illuminated in her own work, you will enjoy this free author series event!

As part of Cather’s 150th commemoration and Jaffrey’s 250th celebration, executive director Ashley Olson and Cather sculptor Littleton Alston will speak on “Willa Cather as Creator: Breaking the Mold and Carving a Place in History” on Friday, August 11 at The Amos Fortune Forum.