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WCF Collection Grows
… Grows February 12, 2015 As plans progress for the National Willa Cather Center and the new archival facility to be housed … through the generosity of both new and old friends of the Foundation. Inscribed Cather photos, historic family photos, …
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56th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference
Image 56th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference February 7, 2011 In May 1916, Willa Cather wrote to her friend Mabel Dodge Luhan that she just had the luck of sharing a train with a very well-known actor. When the train stopped in Albuquerque, she even …
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25th Anniversary of the Norma Rose Walter Scholarship Program
Image 25th Anniversary of the Norma Rose Walter Scholarship Program April 20, 2011 Since 1987, the Willa Cather Foundation has awarded 29 scholarships totaling more than $ 140,000 through the Norma Ross Walter Scholarship program. This year marks the 25th …
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View "Portraits of the Prairie" Exhibit
Image Image Image View "Portraits of the Prairie" Exhibit November 4, 2011 It is often called "Catherland"-Webster County, Nebraska, where the quintessential American novelist Willa Cather spent her childhood and found inspiration for her stories of …
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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 … Cather's Poems, now in preparation, will be among the last volumes published in that series by the University of … be sent by February 15, 2012 to: Robert Thacker Canadian Studies Program St. Lawrence University Canton, New York …
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The Wartime Escape & Jerry Finnegan's Sister at the Opera House
Image Image Image Image Image Image The Wartime Escape & Jerry Finnegan's Sister at the Opera House January 24, 2012 The Red Cloud Opera House will host a day of events and a traveling exhibit on Saturday, March 3 as part of its 10 th season of events. An …
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Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012
Image Image Writer's 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 …
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2013 Spring Conference
Image 2013 Spring Conference June 5, 2012 "We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while." These words ring as true today as they did the day Cather penned them, …
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"Hard Punishments": Fragments of a Lost Work
… of a Lost Work December 16, 2011 At her death in 1947, Willa Cather was working on a story -- or perhaps a novel -- set … in March 2011. In our Fall 2011 Willa Cather Newsletter & Review , we have published complete transcriptions of all …
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Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge
Image Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge December 29, 2011 The Willa Cather Foundation is excited to promote continued reading of Cather's novels by encouraging participation in the Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge. To take part in the challenge, …
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