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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation efforts As American author Willa Cather’s 150th was celebrated in 2023, … who, toward the end of her life, struggled to write the story of her home state.  Sapphira and the Slave Girl …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… of sculpture at Creighton University in Omaha, was selected from over seventy artists to create the Willa … of Virginia, among others, many of her most well-known stories are about Nebraska and its people. I hope her … Nebraska-Lincoln faculty members Andrew Jewell and Melissa Homestead praised Cather's selection as a representative of …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Willa Cather , on view at the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery, and Travis Hencey's new exhibit, The Field, The … Book Award. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and the 2021 recipient of the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the … and varied communities of readers. Cather’s literary works detail numerous acts of reading, and she herself was an avid …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home … in Cather's novel,  The Song of the Lark , and short stories, “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best Years.” The … is a late nineteenth century floral pattern that she selected. Applied directly to the acidic wooden boards …
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Premiere of Willa Cather: Breaking the Mold

… Spring Conference Thursday, Jun 6, 2024 | 7 - 8pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster St. Red Cloud , NE 68970 United …
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Willa Cather Biography

… increased in the years since. The multi-volume Willa Cather Scholarly Edition (thirteen volumes of its projected fifteen … periodical that reaches a broad audience beyond academy, is published three times a year by the National Willa … It would be followed in 1918 with the more personal  My Ántonia  where the narrative proper begins with the very …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Cloud are officially organized. 1872  — Charles Cather and Mary Virginia Boak marry on December 5 at the home of the … poems titled  April Twilights , is published. Cather meets lifelong companion Edith Lewis. 1905  — Cather’s first … and muckraking journals. 1907  —  The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science  is …
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63rd annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Spring Conference Thursday, May 31, 2018 | 12am - Saturday, Jun 2, 2018 | 12am National … at Last is an American Novel”: Celebrating 100 Years of My Ántonia Red Cloud, NE | May 31–June 2, 2018 Conference …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 5.1  Spring 1961 Editor: Miriam Mountford  Letter to Supporters p. 1  Financial Report p. 1  Proposed Budget for … by One of Ours p. 67  The Opera House Endowment Fund and Planned Giving p. 68  Photograph of Snow on the prairie by Betty …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are commemorating acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s 150th year with a host of special events … career and contributions to American letters were honored nationally in 2023 when her statue was unveiled as part of …
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