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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains
… And all along it, wherever it looped or ran, the sunflowers grew; some of them were as big as little trees, with … dozens of blossoms. They made a golden ribbon across the prairie. Occasionally one of the horses would tear off with … using the colorful blooms as trail markers came to be. Cather directly referenced the trail on the Laramie Plain of …
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2019 Artist-in-Residence, Richard Dickson, On What Inspires His Rural Photography
… photographer, has been in residence with the National Willa Cather Center since early July to photograph the landscapes … Beauty in the Ordinary , at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery (from August 9 - September 30, 2019). We recently … about Cather and sought out her other works, contacted the Foundation, and on a return visit to New Mexico last year …
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Meet Intern William Kelly
… at the Burlington Depot, beginning to read through Willa Cather’s work, and exploring the prairie and rural environs. … to UNL, we study the traditional, musical, artistic, and literary history of the long nineteenth century …
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Suicide Grave
… suicide grave in My Antonia was described by Willa Cather as a little island of tall red grass. Francis … under and under until it had almost disappeared from the prairie; when all the fields were under fence, and the roads no longer ran about like wild things, but followed the surveyed …
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Free Events happening at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference
… at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference May 24, 2017 The Willa Cather Foundation hosts their 62nd annual Spring Conference … United States — one of which is the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. Glass will speak at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, in the Red … Burlington Depot. Author Ann Satterthwaite joins us to talk about her book, Local Glories: Opera Houses on Main Street, …
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WoW Celebrates Anniversary of The Song of the Lark
… Image WoW Celebrates Anniversary of The Song of the Lark July 14, 2015 The Willa Cather Foundation … a picnic and night sky viewing on the 612-acre Cather Prairie, guided tours of the Cather historic sites, an art … from across the state and elsewhere. One limited-edition print featuring artwork from the covers of twenty-four …
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Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012
… May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium … have long noted her sharp presentation of herself as prairie poet with "Prairie Spring" at the beginning of her … prose is "poetic," very few readers have had much to say about Cather's own poetry. In 1962 scholar Bernice Slote …
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Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012
… Workshop: May 17-20, 2012 October 26, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the … she knew best, she turned for inspiration to the Nebraska prairie that affected her youth. Each year, the Willa Cather Foundation is pleased to host a Prairie Writers' Workshop for beginning, aspiring, or experienced …
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2013 Spring Conference
… while." These words ring as true today as they did the day Cather penned them, 100 years ago. Our spring conference … The novel celebrates the transformation of the American prairies by European settlers and marks Cather's emergence … Broken Heart , and filmmaker Charles Fairbanks will talk about how Cather's novel and the Great Plains have inspired …
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Turn the Page Literary Tour
… Image Turn the Page Literary Tour July 3, 2013 The Willa Cather State Historic Site/Red Cloud Opera House is one of 80 attractions included in … Turn the Page tour. Travelers have until September 30 to visit attractions and redeem their stamps for prizes. For …
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