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NOVELIST WILLA CATHER'S CHILDHOOD HOME FOR SALE.(LOCAL)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 19980423
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GORE -- Willow Shade, childhood home of Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather, is in want of a new owner.

``Everyone who's called has had an interest in Willa Cather. We've gotten a call from Phoenix and a call from Scranton, Pennsylvania. The other call was a local one. That gentleman's middle name is Cather, so he may possibly be a relation,'' said real estate agent E.E. Bayliss.

Cather is best known for the novel, ``Sapphira and the Slave Girl'' about the Underground Railroad used by slaves to flee north to freedom.

Born not far from Willow Shade on Dec. 7, 1873, ...

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