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2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success

… Success July 24, 2015 2015 was a very special year for the Willa Cather Foundation’s annual Spring Conference. As we … our International Seminar to Nebraska by combining the two events into a weeklong, Nebraska-wide celebration of … of art, mentioning many of them in her writing. Of these, My Ántonia’s story of Pavel and Peter, the sleigh-driving …
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WoW Celebrates Anniversary of The Song of the Lark

… Anniversary of The Song of the Lark July 14, 2015 The Willa Cather Foundation is celebrating the 100th anniversary of … About the Prairie and Night Sky Viewing The Willa Cather Memorial Prairie is a botanical treasure consisting of 612 …
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Jorn Olsen Photography

… River to the vivid colors of an autumn sunset over the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, Olsen creates magnificent images of …
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View "Portraits of the Prairie" Exhibit

… 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 … to Red Cloud, Cather's childhood home; to the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, a botanical jewel of mixed-grass prairie …
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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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Virtual Birthday Party

… Image Virtual Birthday Party November 21, 2012 Join the Willa Cather Foundation as we celebrate the birthday of one of the … Tea & Readings in Omaha, NE Afternoon Tea in Hastings, NE Gallery Walk & Music in Logan, UT Afternoon Tea in Omaha, NE …
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Joy

… 6, 2008 I have said before that the Middle Ground of the Cather Foundation is indeed broad reaching out from its … whose work will be featured at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery in June, as a part of the annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, scheduled for June 5-6-7. …
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Spring Conference 2009: A Story of a Photograph

… of Nebraska-Lincoln Archives and Special Collections for a gallery exhibit at the Red Cloud Opera House, I came across one image that I liked very much. In it, Willa Cather is holding a small baby, her niece Helen Louise …
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Reflections from the Prairie Writers' Workshop by Timothy Schaffert

… Writers' Workshop by Timothy Schaffert July 24, 2009 Willa Cather taught in a writers' workshop in  1922, at Middlebury … reading, and the many images and emotions evoked in the gallery of the Opera House those evenings have stayed with …
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Road Scholar Program: June 4-8, 2012

… Image Road Scholar Program: June 4-8, 2012 March 6, 2012 The Willa Cather Foundation and Road Scholar are proud to invite you to Red …
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