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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Cather's House: Examining Built and Natural Environments in Her Work … will begin Thursday, June 5th with a plenary talk about Cather and Mesa Verde by interpretive ranger Ann … are encouraged. Abstracts, along with a short bio, your contact information and institutional affiliation, should be …
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The Willa Cather Teacher Institute

… days immersed in the works of Willa Cather? Are you curious about how the history of Red Cloud connects to larger … certificate of completion and support packet which details contact hours and curriculum. Teachers Take Part In An …
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An Immersive Willa Cather Experience

… Image Walking on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Image The Willa Cather … Hotel Garber in its opening week An Immersive Willa Cather Experience Spend Two Days in Red Cloud "I am not … home to the windswept prairie that memorializes her, visitors of all ages and backgrounds are guaranteed to …
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American Voice: An Evening With Willa Cather

… Image Image from the Willa Cather Foundation Collections & Archives at the National … Advance registration required. Registration opens May 1. About the Photo William Morrison, Haymarket Theatre, …
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19th International Willa Cather Seminar

… Image Willa Cather received an honorary doctor of letters degree from … papers that propose to read across region in Cather’s works and life. Possible topics include, but are not limited … below and completing the provided Google Form. Decisions about acceptance to the conference will be communicated in …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … event being celebrated throughout the year and across the country. The occasion also comes in the centenary year of … on "Willa Cather as a Nebraskan." In Red Cloud, guided tours of Cather historic sites were offered at 11:00 a.m., …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. … her “library,” with her books labeled and sometimes numbered in the back room of her father’s office. As our … on Saturday, June 8th. Attendees are also encouraged to visit, Hommage: Willa Cather , on view at the Red Cloud …
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Own A Piece of History: Willa Cather Sculpture

… Image Image Image Littleton Alston with his statue of Willa Cather at the U.S. Capitol—June 7, 2023 Own A Piece of … a piece in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Read more about—and view—the June 7, 2023 unveiling ceremony at the …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Nebraska, such as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but there are a succession of … she offered this description, Cather had just published  O Pioneers! , her first and far more literary novel focused on … year in Nebraska. As she made clear repeatedly after  O Pioneers!  was published, she had been afforded a rare …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … not proclaimed as being bound for lofty things by the local newspaper. Only sixteen years old, Cather enrolls at the … by Knopf. 1936  — Knopf publishes Cather’s only book of essays,  Not Under Forty . In the book’s introduction, …
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