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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
Image "Hard Punishments": Fragments 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 medieval Avignon titled "Hard Punishments." By all surviving accounts, the writing Cather had …
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Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge
… (1927) October: Shadows on the Rock (1931) November: Lucy Gayheart (1935) December: Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940) …
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Virtual Birthday Party
Image Virtual Birthday Party November 21, 2012 Join the Willa Cather Foundation as we celebrate the birthday of one of the world's foremost authors, Willa Cather! In honor of Cather's 139th birthday on December 7th, the Foundation staff will host …
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Essay Contest Winners
Image Essay Contest Winners September 17, 2012 "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before." ~ Willa Cather As we celebrate the 100th publication anniversary of Willa …
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George Cather Home
Image George Cather Home The George Cather home, just south of Bladen, was the setting for One of Ours . In the pasture west of the house, George and Frances "Franc" Cather built a dugout in 1873, becoming the first of the Cather family to resettle in …
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