Willa Cather & the Farm Novel Tradition In-Person
Willa Cather's early novels depicting farm life explore both her memories of Nebraska and a nation grappling with rapid urbanization. In this lecture, Tracy Sanford Tucker, the director of Collections and Curation at the National Willa Cather Center, will explore Cather's complicated relationship with farm life and her place within the 20th century farm fiction genre, and will provide book recommendations about regional farm literature.
This program is sponsored by the Papillion Area Historical Society, and will take place in the Portal School next to Sump Memorial Library at 230 N. Jefferson St.
Please register for the event below to help us anticipate attendance.
- Date:
- Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Time:
- 1:00PM - 2:00PM
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Portal School House, PAHS
- Audience:
- Adult (19+)
- Categories:
- Books and Literature History Presenters
Tracy Sanford Tucker joined the staff of the National Willa Cather Center in 2012 as Education Director; in 2022, she was named Director of Collections and Curation. A certified archivist, Tucker oversees the management of the National Willa Cather Center's museum collections and archives programs, as well as the largest number of nationally-designated historic sites dedicated to an American author. Tucker is a graduate of Kansas State University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a Master's degree in American literature and creative writing, with a specialization in Great Plains Studies. She is an Affiliate Fellow of the Center for Great Plains Studies.