Tracy Sanford Tucker of the National Willa Cather Center will present on the novel at 2 p.m. in Connell Hall, Room 131. Admission is free and open to the public.
The public is invited to join Tracy Sanford Tucker, director of collections and curation at the National Willa Cather Center, for an exploration of Willa Cather's enduring classic during "My Ántonia: The Story of an American Novel" at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, in Wayne State College’s Connell Hall, Room 131. Admission is free.
Published in 1918 to immediate acclaim, "My Ántonia" has remained in print and continued to find new readers for more than a century. The novel's exploration of immigration and assimilation, class and labor, rural life, changing landscapes, and the American experience continues to resonate today.
Drawing on more than 70 years of museum collecting in Red Cloud, Neb., Tucker will share archival materials, historical context, and insights into the people, places, and objects that helped inspire Cather's work. The presentation will also highlight the National Willa Cather Center's efforts to preserve the sites, collections, and stories that enrich understanding of one of Nebraska's most celebrated novels.
This presentation is offered in conjunction with the traveling exhibit "Here at Last Is an American Novel: Willa Cather's My Ántonia," on display at Wayne State’s U.S. Conn Library from Oct. 1 to Nov. 15. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
The exhibit was developed by the National Willa Cather Center and the Willa Cather Foundation as part of the NEA Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
For more information, contact Dr. Stephanie Marcellus, professor of English at Wayne State at [email protected].