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Jeffrey Gershom

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Lonely Bench
Willa Cather Memorial Prairie
Red Cloud, NE
September 2011
📷©Jeffrey Gershom
Canon T1i w/EF-S 18-55mm
#BlueSky #Photography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #BlackAndWhite #B&W #ClassicMono #MonoMonday #Landscape #OpenSky #Prairie #Empty #TimeForgotten #WillaCather #MyAntonia #BookSky

Lonely Bench ©2025 Jeffrey Gershom - A black and white photograph of a single bench overlooking the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie from September 2011. The solitude can be overwhelming, but its beauty is profound. I felt sorry for this lonely bench among the 612 acres of native prairie, so I sat down on it. My mind tried to think of what it was like during the beginning of the 20th century. I'm sure it was simple in some ways, but hard in the sense that you had to do everything yourself. You actually lived off the land. If there are any ghosts around, I'm sure they are peaceful at this place. Let's hope our current world can learn from this open and wide land.

November 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM Everybody can reply

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Garrett Peck

@garrettpeck.bsky.social

My publisher, University of New Mexico Press, sent me these cool banners for social media. Whatdya think?   

“The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop” will be out on February 17, 2026.   

#willacather #book

An image showing the cover of Garrett Peck's upcoming book "The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop." The cover shows a 1924 portrait of Cather wear a kimono.

October 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM Everybody can reply

mr-pierce.bsky.social

@mr-pierce.bsky.social

#booksky #willacather

October 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM Everybody can reply

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Cathie Grimm

@catgrimm.bsky.social

#17 of 2025: I really liked it, even if it could be cast as Catholic propaganda. Cather was a good writer. #WillaCather #booksky #litsky

October 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM Everybody can reply

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History

@libraryaac.bsky.social

Today it's 2 new #NonHumanStudies / #animalstudies books with wolves on the cover! 🐺🐺
Editors Kenneth K. Brandt & @karinmd.bsky.social present essays on the nonhuman in literary naturalism, w #AmericanLiterature authors #JackLondon #Hemingway #WillaCather #EdithWharton & more

#ecocriticism

The book "The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism" on a large tree trunk

October 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM Everybody can reply

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imnjupiter

@imnjupiter.bsky.social

#prousttogether
#willacather
#deathcomesforthearchbishop
I remember the grandmother reading these letters of Mme de Sévigné in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.

September 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM Everybody can reply

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NoThanks

@donahuesurfer.bsky.social

A couple of pics from a recent jaunt over to Santa Fe & environs.

“Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.” Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop." #newmexico #willacather

Savor beauty no matter what.

September 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM Everybody can reply

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imnjupiter

@imnjupiter.bsky.social

The cover art is by Harold Von Schmidt. He illustrated a deluxe edition of this book which had 60 illustrations!
#HaroldVonSchmidt
#DeathComesFortheArchbishop
#WillaCather

August 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM Everybody can reply

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imnjupiter

@imnjupiter.bsky.social

#willacather
#deathcomesforthearchbishop
This is why I should always put hashtags on separate lines 🙂. So they don’t run into each other.

August 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM Everybody can reply

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imnjupiter

@imnjupiter.bsky.social

#willacather#deathcomesforthearchbishop #wildsweetwilliams
#searcyarkansas

August 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM Everybody can reply

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kathrynmccary.bsky.social

@kathrynmccary.bsky.social

#WillaCather #TheTavern #Poetry

August 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM Everybody can reply

Garrett Peck

@garrettpeck.bsky.social

We have a cover for my Willa Cather book! It's based on a 1924 portrait by Nickolas Muray, and it served as her publicity photo. A copy has hung at Bishop's Lodge for 98 years. The book is on track for a February 17, 2026 publication date, and it's now on Amazon for pre-order. #books #willacather

July 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM Everybody can reply

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Alhy K. Wood 🦔🧁🚀🪆🫧🌸🇵🇸

@alhykwood.bsky.social

- Entre Visillos by #CarmenMartínGaite

- Swann's Way by #MarcelProust

- Les Années by #AnnieErnaux

- Drive your plow over the bones of the dead by #OlgaTokarczuk

- The Trial by #FranzKafka

- Lucy Gayheart by #WillaCather

- Precious Bane by #MaryWebb

June 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM Everybody can reply

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Thenextpage

@thenextpage.bsky.social

With the end of the First World War and the 1922 publications of #Ulysses by #JamesJoyce and #TheWasteLand by #TSEliot,
#WillaCather wrote, ”the world broke in two in 1922….”

#Bloomsday

June 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM Everybody can reply

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kathrynmccary.bsky.social

@kathrynmccary.bsky.social

#WillaCather #SpanishJohnny #Poetry

May 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM Everybody can reply

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Jack Love

@jlove4.bsky.social

Check out my post on Hypotheses, the grad student blog for the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. The article highlights some of the research I plan to present this summer. Give it a read!

#americanliterature #willacather #hca #heidelberg #americanstudies #literarystudies

Willa Cather’s Nebraska: The Divide, Geologic Deep Time, and Indigenous Erasure in O, Pioneers!

by Jack Love Introduction Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! is a unique novel that employs environmental language prevalent in American Literature of the...

hcagrads.hypotheses.org

May 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM Everybody can reply

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tansytea.bsky.social

@tansytea.bsky.social

Spending the night reading #MyAntonia by #WillaCather and waiting for a thunderstorm to move through.

If anyone wants to read what I'm reading, here's the link from #ProjectGutenberg
www.gutenberg.org/files/242/24...

The Project Gutenberg eBook of My Ántonia, by Willa Cather

www.gutenberg.org

May 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM Everybody can reply

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Page & Postage | Bibliophile & Stamp Collector

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Plains, Prose & Postage: Willa Cather Stamped in Time! 🌾✍️📬

www.instagram.com/p/DI2BtiKOFk...

#WillaCather #LiteraryLegend #StampCollectors #WomenWriters #AmericanLiterature #Philately #VintageStamps #BookLovers #GreatPlains #1973Stamps #PostalTribute

April 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM Everybody can reply

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Avni Odabaşı

@avniodabasi.bsky.social

"Bazı şeyleri en iyi sakin zamanlarda, bazılarını ise fırtınada öğrenirsiniz."
#WillaCather

Amerika'lı yazarın aramızdan ayrılışının 78. yılında saygıyla..

April 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM Everybody can reply

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Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."

✒ #WillaCather, American
novelist, short story writer, and poet, passed away #OTD 24 April 1947. #Poetry #Literature

April 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM Everybody can reply

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Mind's Eye Tom

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#Limerick #entertainment #humor #RedCloud #Nebraska #Ogalala #WillaCather #giftideas www.youtube.com/channel/UCnf...

April 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM Everybody can reply

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Heather Naylor

@mommaheather.bsky.social

💙📚 #BookSky #TheWriteWomen #WillaCather
Just finished reading. Not exactly my cup of tea. But, I find Willa Cather a fascinating woman and believe I see her in Antonia