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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!

… New Board Members! December 11, 2015 We at the Willa Cather Foundation are proud to work with a board that … and president and board member of the Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center. Her hobbies are reading, history, … fashion and reading. In addition to her role on the Willa Cather Foundation board of governors, she sits on the …
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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

… to the vivid colors of an autumn sunset over the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, Olsen creates magnificent images of Nebraska’s … 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 preceding it will be focused on Cather the poet, on poetry, and on today's poets from the … have long noted her sharp presentation of herself as prairie poet with "Prairie Spring" at the beginning of her …
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Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012

… Workshop: May 17-20, 2012 October 26, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the … she knew best, she turned for inspiration to the Nebraska prairie that affected her youth. Each year, the Willa Cather Foundation is pleased to host a Prairie Writers' …
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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 … The novel celebrates the transformation of the American prairies by European settlers and marks Cather's emergence …
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Catherton Cemetery

… Ann Caroline Cather, Willa's grandparents—the Burdens in My Ántonia . "The moonlight silvered the long billowy grass that …
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Small Town Big Dreams

… Small Town Big Dreams March 3, 2010 "On my way East I broke my journey at Hastings, in Nebraska, and set off with an … in front that sloped down to the highroad." -- My Ántonia by Willa Cather The Hastings/Adams County Convention …
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Spring Conference Call for Papers

… Spring Conference Call for Papers December 5, 2011 Willa Cather, Poet: Making Herself Born The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium … have long noted her sharp presentation of herself as prairie poet with "Prairie Spring" at the beginning of her …
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