Here’s a heads-up for an event you won’t want to miss! Your colleagues, the Cult of the Catherites, will host a birthday celebration in honor of Willa Cather on Friday, Dec. 7, as part of the Logan Gallery Walk. St. John’s Episcopal Church (85 East 100 North), starting at 5:30 but feel free to come and go, stopping by as you wish (Gallery Walk runs from 6-9). We’ll have an ongoing program of music and readings related to Cather’s works. There will be a wonderful sung version of Ave Maria plus seasonal piano music by the virtuoso Bonnie Moore plus some readings of Cather’s Christmas and winter scenes. We’ll also have birthday cake (recipe from the Cather cookbook), an information table, and a gift table with Cather-related Christmas items (these are actually quite nice and most are inexpensive). Willa Cather’s great-nephew, Jim Southwick, and his wife Angela will be here as well. Make sure we’re one of your Gallery Walk stops.
We seek additional help, especially from graduate students who might want a service line for your cv. We’d appreciate volunteer readers, cake bakers, servers, gift table attendants, etc. Just let one of the cult members know you’d like to help: Evelyn Funda, Susan Andersen, Bonnie Moore, Shelly Halling, and Steve Shively.
The Willa Cather Foundation is holding birthday events across the country, partly because 2013 will be a big year in the Cather world: the 100th anniversary of O Pioneers!, a mass market edition of Cather’s letters (out in April from Knopf) with associated NPR and New Yorker features, an international seminar in Flagstaff (see the poster and call for papers on Shively’s door), and more.
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