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Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift

… Image Kohout at Willa Cather's grave in Jaffrey, NH Image Viewing Cather's … Nebraska. Kohout grew up in Texas, but each summer she visited her mother’s family in Lincoln, Nebraska. She has … work can continue long past her lifetime, and visitors can experience the same engaging tours, conferences, and …
Posted: 09/10/2024
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… that are free and open to the public. Download the Mobile App   Access the Schedule “But finally, it all comes back to … in the the life and work of Willa Cather    Ecocritical approaches, especially in relation to land ethics and … more than 500 words should describe papers or presentations approximately twenty minutes long. Innovative formats are …
Posted: 07/01/2024
Last Updated: 06/23/2025

Opportunities for Willa Cather Research & Scholarship

… Image Image Opportunities for Willa Cather Research & Scholarship Applications Due … Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska! Research Grants for Visiting Scholars The Cather Project of the University of … are also encouraged to conduct research at the NWCC and to experience Cather’s Nebraska hometown during their …
Posted: 11/05/2024
Last Updated: 11/05/2024

69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. … on Saturday, June 8th. Attendees are also encouraged to visit, Hommage: Willa Cather , on view at the Red Cloud … join us for an invited lecture on Cather and the reader experience. In her introduction for the 2023 Penguin …
Posted: 09/21/2023
Last Updated: 06/06/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … While the reading and understanding of Cather's twelve novels and various other works are the primary attraction, … and stockpiled the details, not knowing the use she would later put them too in some of her novels. During her time on …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … in Red Cloud on December 7, 1973. What resulted four years later was a single 8 cent stamp with Cather’s likeness. … she preached. Miss Cather (1873-1947) echoed in many of her novels the same theme—the spirit and courage of pioneer …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023

A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… later won a medal in an Austrian shooting competition.  “My parents worked and saved so that I could go to college … “Songs my Mother Taught Me” — Czech immigrants as in My Ántonia and Mr. Schimerda was a violinist in the Prague … Thank you! We look forward to your homecoming and to your gift of classic opera on the Red Cloud Opera House stage in …
Posted: 08/01/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023

10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather!

… Image Image 10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather! April 26, 2023 Experience the prairie world of writer Willa Cather in Red Cloud, Nebraska! This year, the National Willa Cather Center, … it—is located just five miles south of Red Cloud on the Kansas border. You are free to explore or book a guided Prairie …
Posted: 04/18/2023
Last Updated: 05/02/2023

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… John Swift p. 75  Also in this issue:  Cather Project Names Electronic Projects Editor p. 54  Issue Editor's Note … TITLE: Meta Schaper Cather: [1942?] Short Letter, Big Meaning AUTHOR: Melissa Homestead TITLE: Virginia, Margaret, … In subsequent divisions the style choices may vary. Many names are listed in this index, and many have only one entry …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

Laura Bush Announces the Willa Cather Campaign for the Future

… Image Laura Bush Announces the Willa Cather Campaign for the Future January 14, 2020 Today, … properties, expand educational programming, develop visitor amenities, and build endowment for the nonprofit … funds needed to restore the sites and enhance the visitor experience for tourists from forty-eight states and five …
Posted: 11/22/2022
Last Updated: 11/22/2022

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