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Singing Cather's Song
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[Description from the original press release] Willa Cather's "song of life" encompassed more than the stories and novels that she wrote. It was her soulful communication about the Nebraska plains, its weather, and the people and their struggles to survive and accomplish here. Before she died in 1989, Mildred Bennett, dedicated Cather researcher and historian, sang the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's "song" through the meticulous restoration and preservation of Cather's environs around Red Cloud, Nebraska. "Singing Cather's Song" is a half-hour documentary focusing on Bennett's spiritual quest to turn these surroundings into a living museum dedicated to Cather's memory and her works. Even though Bennett and Cather never met, because Cather died during the time that Bennett was beginning her 50-some-year research in 1949, Bennett came to know the author through her novels. Bennett, who experienced a strict conservative religious upbringing and family life, felt she was often mirrored in Cather's prose and she came to identify with such Cather heroines as Antonia Shimerda in 'My Antonia,' Alexandra Bergson in '0 Pioneers' and especially Thea Kronborg in 'Song of the Lark.' The program…
Directors & creators
Nebraska Public Media
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB
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