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Coming to Hastings Public Library: Willa Cather
On July 16th the Hastings Public Library will host a re-enactment of the life of Willa Cather. Portraying Ms. Cather is Donna Becker from Historical Echoes.
Donna’s professional career was in psychiatric/mental health nursing administration and education. She has been a continuing education coordinator, spoken widely on end-of-life issues, worked in public relations and marketing. She has also been a volunteer board member of a retirement community, hospice agency, home care agency, Bethel College Women’s Association, the American Association of University Women-Kansas and a private museum. Donna was a graduate of the Institute for Historical Performers. She is passionate about equal rights for women, including equal pay, access to appropriate health care, and opportunities in all fields.
Willa Cather is one of nine characters in Ms. Becker’s repertoire. Pulitzer Prize holder, Willa Cather, speaks to the world beyond her roots in Red Cloud, NE. A renaissance woman in a man's 1900 publishing world, Cather used the written canvas to extend political and social concerns for the plight and life of Midwest pioneers. Prepare for a new perspective of this cosmopolitan, sophisticated woman, originally from the Central Plaines of America.
Willa Cather was an American writer who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a novel set during World War I.
Cather graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and then lived and worked in Pittsburgh supporting herself as a magazine editor and high school English teacher. At the age of 33 she moved to New York City, which became her primary home for the rest of her life.
This program, Meet Willa Cather, is July 16th at 2:00 p.m. in meeting room B at the Hastings Public Library. The performance is open to all ages and is sure to shed a light on Willa Cather not seen at the library before.
Please call the Hastings Public Library at (402) 461-2346 or visit hastingslibrary.us for more information.
Published Date: 07/ 7/2022