Special to the Tribune-Star
TERRE HAUTE — Betty J. Steinshouer will bring Willa Cather, this year’s Big Read author, to life at 12:10 p.m. on Thursday during the Vigo County Public Library Brown Bag Program. The program will take place at the main library at Seventh and Poplar streets. “Willa Cather Speaks” has toured since 1988 with more than 3,500 performances in 40 states and Canada. Steinshouer has done more than 25 years of Cather research to bring audiences as close as they will ever get to meeting and conversing with the author.
Steinshouer has spent most of the past 30 years in libraries, doing research or programs. Although she has published essays, poetry, e-books and chapters in other people’s books, her first book was published in 2009. Her programs include portrayals of Willa Cather, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Gertrude Stein, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Constance Fenimore Woolson.
Steinshouer grew up in the Missouri Ozarks and lived in the Shenandoah Valley, Washington, D.C., Western North Carolina and St. Augustine.
For more details on Big Read programs visit www.vigo.lib.in.us or call (812) 232-1113, ext. 2281 or 2282.
The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.
