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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… Jun 5 - Saturday, Jun 7, 2025 | All day CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 … musical storytelling. Attendees are also encouraged to visit, We're Still Here: American Indian Spirit in the … ways built environments both shape and reflect a person’s experience and character. And then there is Jim’s …
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Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer
… Jun 6, 2025 | 7 - 8:30pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States We … Prize winner Jane Smiley! Her talk on "Willa Cather, My Ántonia and the Life of a Writer" will mark the conclusion …
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Willa Cather & the Farm Novel Tradition
… Papillion , NE 68046 United States REGISTER HERE Willa Cather's early novels depicting farm life explore both her memories of …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. Cather … pleased by hearing the comments of her own readers. From an early age, she established her “library,” with her books … areas: Representations of readers and reading in Cather’s novels and short stories. How readers navigate challenging …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… moved to Nebraska from Virginia in 1883. Her final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl is set in the Shenandoah Valley of her early childhood. …
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Willa Cather Biography
… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
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Willa Cather Timeline
… uncle and aunt of Willa Cather) stake a homestead on the Divide, a broad stretch of land between the Little Blue and … short story to be published in a national magazine, “On the Divide,” appears in Overland Monthly . Annie Sadilek …
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Willa Cather: Life & Literature
… and formative years in Nebraska influenced the novels Sapphira and the Slave Girl and My Ántonia . MSV members: $5; all others: $10. …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … to hear Regional Postmaster General Clarence B. Gels speak about Willa Cather. Also in the audience were relatives of …
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Cather Weekend on Governors Island
… Park Governors Island , NY 10004 United States The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) is partnering with the Empire State … in Pittsburgh and New York, and listen as she later reflects on all her worldly success. 1:30 p.m. – Willa … Herself Born Before Willa Cather went on to write the novels that would make her famous, she made a mark as a …
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