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Cather Second Home Guest House
Image Cather Second Home Guest House At the corner of Sixth and Seward stands the Cather family’s second home. They lived here from 1904 until the death of Cather’s parents (father in 1928, mother in 1931). Willa Cather's parents purchased this home in …
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Call for Applications: Research Grants for Willa Cather Scholarship
Call for Applications: Research Grants for Willa Cather Scholarship October 2, 2019 The Cather Project of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) English Department, in cooperation with the Cather Archive of the UNL Libraries and the National Willa …
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Request for Proposals: Willa Cather Book Illustration
Request for Proposals: Willa Cather Book Illustration October 8, 2019 Project Summary : The National Willa Cather Center seeks to issue a special edition of Willa Cather’s short story collection, Youth and the Bright Medusa , during the 2020 publication …
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Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner
Image Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner September 25, 2019 Some kids growing up in Webster County, Nebraska, may not know who Antonette Turner is, and they may not know about Turner’s grandmother, Anna …
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Rarely Seen Willa Cather Postcard on Exhibit
Image Rarely Seen Willa Cather Postcard on Exhibit September 25, 2019 In the recent transfer of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial collection, we were happy to run across this postcard of Willa Cather to Charles Moore. Written during her first trip to …
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Now Booking School and Group Tours For the Fall
Image Image Now Booking School and Group Tours For the Fall July 31, 2019 Summer is in full-swing here in rural Nebraska, but it is not too early to start booking fall tours for schools or groups who want to learn more about Willa Cather and the town that …
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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains
… using the colorful blooms as trail markers came to be. Cather directly referenced the trail on the Laramie Plain of … always seem to me the roads to freedom." When you visit Willa Cather's Red Cloud or the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie this fall, be sure to linger over the …
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Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020
… for 2020 August 28, 2019 As a young college student, Willa Cather’s academic path took an unexpected turn when, … alter a student’s future, and the Willa Cather Foundation offers several scholarship opportunities that can …
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Sites Manager Position Open
Sites Manager Position Open July 23, 2019 The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) seeks a highly-organized, technically skilled, and multi-talented candidate to fill a new Sites Manager position. The Sites Manager will ensure the short- and long-term …
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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 … 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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