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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

… 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

… front 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 efforts …
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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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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 … Opera House Hiking and bird watching at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Lodging in the historic Cather Second Home …
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Showing at The Lark

… Image Showing at The Lark February 11, 2014 Heralded as Willa Cather's first great novel, O Pioneers! is coming off … conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American … as well as a variety of community and family meetings and events. The Lark is located at 809 West 2nd Street in …
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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 … morning we welcomed our Norma Ross Walter and Antonette Willa Skupa Turner scholarship winners and their families to … Nebraska forager Adam Hintz led a tour of the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, educating visitors on edible prairie …
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