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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 … - September 30, 2019). We recently asked him some questions about his photography and his summer residency. Tell us a …
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Meet Intern William Kelly

… at the Burlington Depot, beginning to read through Willa Cather’s work, and exploring the prairie and rural environs. … own life experiences—such as travel—come through in her own writing. What are you doing this summer at the National …
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Suicide Grave

… suicide grave in My Antonia  was described by Willa Cather as a little island of tall red grass. Francis … under and under until it had almost disappeared from the prairie; when all the fields were under fence, and the roads …
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Free Events happening at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference

… Image Free Events happening at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference May … history and culture. This year’s conference includes many events that are free and open to the public, brought to you … Arts Council, and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. For more information, visit www.WillaCather.org or call toll-free …
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Welcome, New Board Members!

… Image Image Image Welcome, New Board Members! December 11, 2015 We at the Willa Cather Foundation are proud to work with a board that supports the organization’s mission as …
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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 Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark with a series of special … a picnic and night sky viewing on the 612-acre Cather Prairie, guided tours of the Cather historic sites, an art …
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Jorn Olsen Photography

… Mar 16, 2015 | 12am - Sunday, May 3, 2015 | 12am Red Cloud Opera House Gallery 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE … to the vivid colors of an autumn sunset over the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, Olsen creates magnificent images of … May 2 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. prior to a production of Catherland:The Musical at the Red Cloud Opera House. …
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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 … prose is "poetic," very few readers have had much to say about Cather's own poetry. In 1962 scholar Bernice Slote …
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Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012

… Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012 October 26, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the … Willa Cather Memorial Prairie with time for on-site nature writing; and a reception that provides participants with the …
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2013 Spring Conference

… while." These words ring as true today as they did the day Cather penned them, 100 years ago. Our spring conference will celebrate the centennial of Cather's breakthrough novel O Pioneers! in which she "hit … this year. Rowdy string-band MAW will entertain in the Opera House, and award-winning cowboy poet, storyteller, and …
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