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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Cather's House: Examining Built and Natural Environments in Her Work … to register was May 25. Please see the schedule below for events that are free and open to the public. Download the … Spirit in the Unmade Place , on view at the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery. Funding was provided by Humanities …
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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 of …
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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 and the Readerly Imagination Spring Conference … Arts Council. His work can be found in  Rattle, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner , and in hundreds of other …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … will resume in March of 2024. Guests who book a tour in the early weeks of that month will have an opportunity to see … 150 Years of Willa Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … seven children raised by Charles and Mary Virginia Cather. Cathers had been in the area since the 1700s, and Back … young Willa Cather developed her love for the stage, for musical performance, and for artistry of all sorts. Image …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … later use this event in one of her most famous novels,  My Antonia . 1882  — Red Cloud becomes a division point for the …
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Willa Cather: Life & Literature

… Oct 22, 2023 | 3 - 4pm Museum of the Shenandoah Valley 901 Amherst Street Winchester , VA 22601 United States … influenced the novels   Sapphira and the Slave Girl   and   My Ántonia . MSV members: $5; all others: $10. Please register …
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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 stamp September 6, 2023 In 1969, the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors pursued … if they had never happened before,’ wrote Willa Cather in O Pioneers ! and she practiced what she preached. Miss Cather …
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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 … nine years old, her family moved from Virginia to Nebraska. Early years in Webster County and in Red Cloud did much to … 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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