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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Cather's House: Examining Built and Natural Environments in … will begin Thursday, June 5th with a plenary talk about Cather and Mesa Verde by interpretive ranger Ann … as well as the return of the popular star-gazing on the prairie program that evening. Pulitzer Prize winner Jane …
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International Cather Seminar

… International Cather Seminar The International Cather Seminar is held biennially in locations around the country—and the world!—that were important to Willa Cather. Colleagues from around the globe, at all …
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The Willa Cather Foundation

… Image The Willa Cather Foundation dba the National Willa Cather Center The … and groups of all backgrounds, worldviews, and identities. Learning: We continuously learn and teach. Professionalism: … and conservation of the 612-acre  Willa Cather Memorial Prairie ; Coordination of an immersive summer teacher …
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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 … sites were offered at 11:00 a.m., and 1:00 and 3:00 p.m.  World renowned author Willa Cather spent her formative years …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. … APP DOWNLOAD THE SPRING CONFERENCE PROGRAM Our 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference will celebrate  Willa Cather … and affect: how emotions such as joy, grief, pleasure, and escape are evoked by or represented in Cather’s works.   …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home … Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about …
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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

… northern Virginia to the pioneering prairie of the Nebraska Divide—a sensitive child at a critical age—was in many ways … for an incipient writer: though sparsely settled, the Divide between the Republican and Blue rivers offered her … put them too in some of her novels. During her time on the Divide, Cather attended a one-room school house, but Charles …
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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie  "We come and go, but the land …
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Willa Cather as Creator: Breaking the Mold and Carving a Place in History

… with his statue of Willa Cather at the U.S. Capitol Image Ashley Olson, Executive Director, National Willa Cather Center The … and Jaffrey’s 250th celebration, executive director Ashley Olson and Cather sculptor Littleton Alston will speak …
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