A statuette of famed Nebraska literary icon Willa Cather is set to be unveiled at southeast Lincoln’s Gere Branch Library this Saturday, September 21.
Lincoln City Libraries (LCL) invites residents to a free special event from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the library (located at 2400 S. 56th St.) that will feature remarks and presentations honoring Cather’s contributions to literature and her connection to Lincoln from Ashley Olson, Executive Director of the National Willa Cather Center, and Cather scholar Steve Shively.
“We’re proud to have (Cather’s) presence, her experience, her contributions to literature emanate from the state of Nebraska,” said LCL Director Ryan Wieber. “We’re also proud of her connection to UNL and the time that she spent here in Lincoln. It’s only appropriate that we have her represented in the form of a statuette at a place where literacy and literature is celebrated: a public library.”
The event will also feature a dialogue with artist Littleton Alston, creator of the Willa Cather sculpture in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol unveiled last year. Gere Branch Library will unveil a statuette, or “miniature version” of the same Cather sculpture at the event to be displayed in the library’s entrance — gifted by former UNL College of Law Associate Dean for Students and Administration Glenda Pierce and City Attorney Jeff Kirkpatrick.
For more information about this event, visit lincolnlibraries.org.