By Popular Demand

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"Willa Cather Speaks" has toured since 1988 with more than 3,500 performances in 40 states and Canada. Betty Jean Steinshouer has done 25+ years of Cather research to bring audiences as close as they will ever get to meeting and conversing with the no-sag author.  (As the oldtimers on Grand Manan, where the reclusive Cather owned a cottage and spent summers from 1921-1940, have been heard to say when they see the playbill for the one-woman show:  "Willa Cather speaks, eh?  It's about time.")

Special Performance for THE BIG READ: The Making of My Antonia

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Betty Jean Steinshouer in 1991 as Willa Cather

2008
SELECTED DATES
 
Monday, January 28   4 p.m.  Ocean Reef Center, Key Largo
MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS:
VOICE OF THE EVERGLADES
 
Wednesday, February 6  1 p.m. Hillsborough Community College - Brandon Campus  WILLA CATHER SPEAKS
 
Saturday, February 9  7 p.m. Bok Tower Sanctuary, Lake Wales
MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS:
VOICE OF THE EVERGLADES
 
Sunday, February 10  2 p.m. Pack Library, Asheville, NC
THE BIG READ: WILLA CATHER SPEAKS
 
Tuesday, March 18   7 p.m. University of Central Florida, Orlando   
VOICE OF THE EVERGLADES 
 
Wednesday, March 19  Pasco County Friends of the Library Luncheon, Tampa Bay Golf & Country Club  San Antonio, FL
VOICE OF THE EVERGLADES
 
Saturday, April 12  2 p.m.  Lyon County Library, Marshall, MN
THE BIG READ: 
WILLA CATHER SPEAKS
The Making of My Antonia
 
Monday, April 14  7 p.m. Fremont Public Library Mundelein, IL
THE BIG READ: 
WILLA CATHER SPEAKS
The Making of My Antonia
 
Thursday, April 17 Weatherford, TX
THE BIG READ: 
WILLA CATHER SPEAKS
The Making of My Antonia
 
9 a.m. Weatherford High School
12:10 Friends of the Library Luncheon -Los Vaqueros Banquet Hall
7 p.m. Doss Heritage & Cultural Center
 
Saturday, April 19  2 p.m. Watauga Public Library Watauga, TX
MEET LAURA INGALLS WILDER
author of the Little House books
 
Monday, April 21  6:30 p.m. Smith Public Library Wylie, TX
MEET LAURA INGALLS WILDER
author of the Little House books
 
Tuesday, April 22 7 p.m.Grapevine Public Library Grapevine, TX
WILLA CATHER SPEAKS
 
Thursday, April 24  1 p.m. Florida Library Association, Tradewinds Resort, St. Petersburg Beach
VOICE OF THE EVERGLADES:
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
 
Saturday, April 26, 2 p.m.  Cozby Public Library, Coppell, TX
MEET LAURA INGALLS WILDER
author of the Little House books
 
Tuesday, April 29  10 a.m.  The Library at Cedar Creek Lake
Seven Points, TX  WILLA CATHER SPEAKS
 
Wednesday, May 7,  3:30 p.m. Museum of Florida Art & Culture, South Florida Community College, Avon Park   
VOICE OF THE EVERGLADES:
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
 
Friday, May 10  7 p.m. City Hall, Lake Helen, Florida
VOICE OF THE EVERGLADES:
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
 
May 14  7 p.m. Shrewsbury Public Library, Shrewsbury, MA
WILLA CATHER SPEAKS: 
THE BIG READ
The Making of My Antonia
 

THE GILDED AGE AND REFORM ERA:

THE VIEW FROM FLORIDA

A Workshop Created for Brevard County History Teachers

by the Florida Humanities Council

Funded by a USDOE Teaching American History Grant

July 29 – August 1, 2008

Flagler College, St. Augustine

July 30   7:00 – 9:00 pm Ponce Hall

The World or the Parish?

Sarah Orne Jewett and Willa Cather

in the Gilded Age 

 exploring Jewett’s annual sojourns to St. Augustine, 1888 -1896, and Cather’s coming of age as a world traveler, 1890 – 1918.  By rail and voyage, each inhabited an ever-expending world.

NOTE:  Due to storms off the coast of South Florida and in the Gulf, the New Orleans portion of the tour has been cancelled.  Check back to this space for future notice - it may be re-booked for October or November.  Fall tour to New England will proceed as planned.

September 13   7 p.m.  "Rediscovering Marjorie"

Flagler College Grand Ballroom, St. Augustine

September 26  THE BIG READ  The Making of My Antonia
 8 p.m.  Academy of Music  Northampton, MA
 
October 15  7 p.m. Public Library, Merrimack, NH
MEET LAURA INGALLS WILDER
 
November 10  6 p.m.  The Villages
MAINE'S MASTER SMART WOMAN:
SARAH ORNE JEWETT
 
November 12  2 p.m.  W.T. Bland Library, Mount Dora, FL
GERTRUDE STEIN HAS ARRIVED!
 
November 13  7 p.m.  Library, Lake City, FL
MEET LAURA INGALLS WILDER
 

   
   
   

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