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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 world she knew best, she turned for inspiration to the Nebraska prairie that affected her youth. Each year, the Willa Cather …
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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 … House Hiking and bird watching at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Lodging in the historic Cather Second Home guest … of the Prairie Pioneer in Grand Island. To learn more about this year's Nebraska Passport, visit …
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Showing at The Lark
… Showing at The Lark February 11, 2014 Heralded as Willa Cather's first great novel, O Pioneers! is coming off of a … is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make … and The Willa Cather Foundation's Red Cloud Opera House . About the organizations: The Willa Cather Foundation is a …
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2014 Spring Conference Highlights
… opened Thursday with a day of scholarly presentations on Cather, her contemporaries, and the literary environment. We welcomed topics on not only Cather’s prairie landscape, but her urban and eastern landscapes, the … and pedagogy. Sue Maher, Tom Lynch, and John Price talked about their recent nonfiction publications related to …
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