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Suicide Grave

… the fields were under fence, and the roads no longer ran about like wild things, but followed the surveyed …
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Free Events happening at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference

… at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference May 24, 2017 The Willa Cather Foundation hosts their 62nd annual Spring Conference … sites in the United States — one of which is the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. Glass will speak at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, in the Red …
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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

… Armstrong at aarmstrong@willacather.org or at 402-746-2653. About the Performers Michelle Dean (soprano) is currently a … Artists and Chorus Director of the Utah Symphony Chorus. About the Prairie and Night Sky Viewing The Willa Cather … after dark. Guests should bring lawn chairs or blankets! About the Exhibit This year marks the publication centenary …
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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

… 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

… 26, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the world she knew best, she turned for … p.m. Writing workshop. Finding your "home pasture": Writing about our place, our stories, our lives. Drawing inspiration … of writing groups. Is publication for you? If so, how to go about it. How might readings benefit your work. 3:00-4:30 …
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2013 Spring Conference

… Broken Heart , and filmmaker Charles Fairbanks will talk about how Cather's novel and the Great Plains have inspired …
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Catherton Cemetery

… Image Catherton Cemetery Originally, George Cathers's two sisters, Jennie (see "Macon Prairie") and Alverna, both of whom died of tuberculosis, …
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Small Town Big Dreams

… that sloped down to the highroad." -- My Ántonia by Willa Cather The Hastings/Adams County Convention and Visitors … , Webster County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Willa Cather Foundation, and the Starke Round Barn have combined … the Red Cloud Opera House, viewing the stars on the Cather Prairie and the J.M. McDonald Planetarium, going back in …
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