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My Ántonia: New Readings for a Centennial Celebration

… University, Professor of English, Emeritus)  will serve as moderator of the panel.   …
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Serena's Album

… than bookstores, and widely given as gifts to women and girls. Serena’s album has long been an object of curiosity … F. Curran, the very popular Superior High School principal hired that year to be the principal in Red Cloud. Serena’s … Jennie A. Thomas was the “Miss Thomas of Nuckolls County” hired to teach the “grammar room” at the school in Red Cloud …
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Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections of materials related … book in the late 1920s. It includes addresses of Cather’s friends, family, business associates, firms, and hotels. … clippings   WCPM trivet      WCPM plate     Willa Cather Childhood Home Plate (1977)     WCPM metal flower keychain   …
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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift

… since.   Harris was working toward his Ph.D. degree at the University of North Carolina. As with his undergraduate … Edith Wharton were all taken, so I looked and said, ‘Well, I did read My Ántonia a few years ago and liked it a … World War I African American U.S. Army infantry regiment known as the Harlem Hellfighters.  On September 3, he took …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… recording of the ceremony and scroll down for a gallery of images and more information— The Congressional Statue … Cather Center executive director, Ashley Olson, on Nebraska Public Media FM’s Friday LIVE Extra podcast, with host …
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Willa Cather Biography

… has been the new and ready availability of Cather’s own letters to researchers. These letters are held in archives throughout the country and the … Nebraska P, 2000. Bohlke, Brent L. Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters .      Lincoln: U of …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Notice for Mrs. James Cather p. 2  Board Meeting: Director Hired— JoAnna Lathrop p. 2  Volunteers p. 3  1976 Conference … the Big Rock: Wilder, Cather, and the Problem of Frontier Girls  AUTHOR: Ann Romines, George Washington University p. … Nebraska: Red Cloud Newspapers and Cather's "Hired Girls" in My Antonia p.2 AUTHOR: Daryl W. Palmer …
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Antonia's Accent

… over the first syllable in her memorable character's name — Ántonia — to indicate the greater stress that syllable would … the accent in our references to the character or to My Antonia. Some of these visitors will, with justification, … a debate we're quite willing to conduct. As readers of the Scholarly Edition of the novel will know: "In Czech the name …
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"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"

… held June 3-5, will offer three days of events on the fresh topic of food and drink in Willa Cather's writing, based in … a Scholars' Symposium, presenting papers on the conference topic. (See call for papers below.) The two following days … Cather's career will be welcome. A partial list of possible topics: Food, ethnicity, and place Food and drink as …
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