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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

… from a professional writer, the workshop incorporates tours of seven local historic sites relating to Cather's … home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. Guided tours of Cather's childhood home and other historic sites … Friday, May 18 9:30 & 11:00 a.m. or 1:30 & 3:00 p.m. Town tour of Cather historic sites 6:00-9:00 p.m. Writing …
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2013 Spring Conference

… Image 2013 Spring Conference June 5, 2012   "We come and go, but the land is … as they did the day Cather penned them, 100 years ago. Our spring conference will celebrate the centennial of Cather's …
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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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Spring Conference Call for Papers

… first novel, O Pioneers! , yet her actual first book, April Twilights (1903), and its contexts, have received much less … • Cather, Poetry, and Pittsburgh • Cather and Housman or Other Comparisons • Cather's Poetry and McClure's Magazine • …
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Turn the Page Literary Tour

… Image Turn the Page Literary Tour July 3, 2013 The Willa Cather State Historic Site/Red Cloud Opera House is one of … Tap Into It, Turn the Page and Wrangle the West. The Willa Cather State Historic Site/Red Cloud Opera House is part of … House Hiking and bird watching at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Lodging in the historic Cather Second Home guest …
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Showing at The Lark

… Showing at The Lark February 11, 2014 Heralded as Willa Cather's first great novel, O Pioneers! is coming off of a … At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers! is a work in which triumph is …
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2014 Spring Conference Highlights

… opened Thursday with a day of scholarly presentations on Cather, her contemporaries, and the literary environment. We welcomed topics on not only Cather’s prairie landscape, but her urban and eastern landscapes, the …
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