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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 … in front that sloped down to the highroad." -- My Ántonia by Willa Cather The Hastings/Adams County Convention …
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Antonia's Accent

… Image Antonia's Accent December 9, 2008 Willa Cather chose to place … the accent in our references to the character or to My Antonia. Some of these visitors will, with justification, … a debate we're quite willing to conduct. As readers of the Scholarly Edition of the novel will know: "In Czech the name …
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Elderhostel

… Image Elderhostel March 25, 2009 Red Cloud:  Willa Cather's Window to the World June 15-19, 2009 Hosting the … author Willa Cather's life, time, history, and writing. Steven B. Shively, a premier Cather scholar, will …
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"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"

… of food and drink in Cather's writing. This day of scholarly papers and discussion will be followed by two days … as in " A Wagner Matinee " or Pauline's career in Lucy Gayheart Wine and/or beer: Vavrika's saloon in " The …
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Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

… made a lasting contribution to literature. Willa Cather (1873-1947) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who … national recognition for novels such as O Pioneers! and My Ántonia, in which she drew on her own experiences of growing …
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2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image 2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference March 13, 2014 Mapping Literary … In O Pioneers! and My Ántonia , Cather was the first American novelist to treat the Plains of Nebraska as … Cather mapped many other literary landscapes: the Southwest in three novels, colonial Quebec in Shadows on the …
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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 … Road and One Degree West talked about her most recent writing projects. After a full day of papers and … morning we welcomed our Norma Ross Walter and Antonette Willa Skupa Turner scholarship winners and their families to …
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