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Short Biography of Willa Cather
… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short Biography of Willa Cather 1873–1947 Willa Cather was born in Back Creek …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol
… in the centenary year of her Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska … .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career … for Statuary Hall, and I'm thrilled that Nebraska will finally have a literary heroine representing our state in …
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Meet our 2024 Humanities Interns!
… senior year of high school when her literature class read My Ántonia . Drawn in not only by Cather’s strong prose, …
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Reading Willa Cather at the Jaffrey Public Library
… emergence. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , The Professor’s House , Death …
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Hommage: Willa Cather
… their birth centenaries. The authors chosen in 2023 were: Willa Cather (1873–1947) Federico Garcia Lorca (1889–1936) … Nova of La Ràpita in late 2023 and the works inspired by Willa Cather will be on display in the Red Cloud Opera House gallery at the National Willa Cather Center, May 21–August 10, 2024. The exhibit …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A National Historic … options. After an extensive sixteen-month restoration, the Willa Cather Childhood Home reopened for tours on December …
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Historic Sites
… thing I miss most is the opera house.” —Willa Cather, 1929 Moon Block Adjoining the Opera House is the Moon Block, named for its original investor, Michigan Senator John Moon. The Moon Block is home to the National Willa Cather …
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Invitation to Bid - J.L. Miner House
… Miner House serves as a setting for Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia and as a result is visited by more than 8,000 …
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School Field Trips
… for students of all ages and grade levels! Whether learning about Willa Cather and Nebraska history for the first time, … . Browse the current exhibit on display in the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery. Take part in an archival learning …
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Special Guests: Paul Giamatti and Clara Wong
… with Director of Education Rachel Olsen Image Picnic on the Prairie: Giamatti and Wong with NWCC Leadership Special … , made a low key visit to Red Cloud and the National Willa Cather Center last week. Wong and Giamatti, who joined … of events at Omaha's Film Streams, enjoyed tours of the Cather historic sites, the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie , …
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