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Spring Conference Banquet and 'A Little Pleasure'

… Conference Saturday, Jun 1, 2019 | 6:30 - 8:30pm National Willa Cather Center 425 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE … by Julia Hinson from Cather’s short fiction, criticism, and biography. This new work is a narrative adaptation of … of Wagner, but the action of the story is halted as Willa Cather herself arrives to watch the show! Both …
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7th annual Prairie Writers' Workshop

… poetry. The intertwining of art and literature leads to a form of poetry refered to as ekphrastic poetry. In addition …
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Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days

… Image Image Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days May 19, 2021 … woman she certainly should be mentioned among the pioneers in woman's advancement... Miss Cather is just … for our 66th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference , June 3-5, 2021! To Ellen Bladen Gere (June 29, 1896) — when just …
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Annotations from the Archive: Business Papers

… Cloud and Hastings.” Cather was particularly dismayed to learn the farms she owned in Webster County were also in … into Cather’s business affairs, make plans to visit! The archives at the National Willa Cather Center are open … of your time in Nebraska, you should also visit the Cather collections at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail

… Fan Mail August 22, 2022 Our archives are home to not only Willa Cather’s letters, but to many of the letters that she … Cather’s readers wrote to share their love for her writing and, often, the personal connections they felt to …
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Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection

… Estate Item Joins the Collection October 20, 2021 The Willa Cather Foundation Art Collection boasts nearly thirty … drama Knots Landing , but she had starred in a number of literary stage productions, such as The Belle of Amherst , …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thornton Oakley

… to our collection separately, though both originated with Willa Cather’s niece, Helen Cather Southwick. Both had come to us … a book of essays, surely.” Sergeant was, by this time, also writing for New Republic , and the sketches she was creating …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions

… skies, and frosty nights. In this newest part of the New World autumn is the season of beauty and sentiment, as … —from the essay, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," by Willa Cather [ The Nation , September 5, 1923] Thanksgiving, as …
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Visions Seen in the Air: An Invitational Exhibit

… in Red Cloud will be a celebration of 150 years of Willa Cather’s life and work. As part of that celebration, we will … memory are on full display as she so poignantly creates a world that is both Red Cloud and the fictional Sweet Water. …
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Tracy Sanford Tucker

… Tracy Sanford Tucker joined the staff of the National Willa Cather Center in 2012 as Education Director; in 2022, she … with a Master's degree in American literature and creative writing, with a specialization in Great Plains Studies. She …
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