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Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020
… Image Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020 August 28, 2019 As a young college … High school students can apply for one or all of the four scholarships we offer to seniors who will major either in … about our scholarship opportunities, please visit the " Scholarships " page on our website. You can also contact our …
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2019 Artist-in-Residence, Richard Dickson, On What Inspires His Rural Photography
… to photograph the landscapes and buildings in and around Red Cloud and Webster County. Using Victorian-era and … Beauty in the Ordinary , at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery (from August 9 - September 30, 2019). We recently …
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Meet Intern William Kelly
… at the Burlington Depot, beginning to read through Willa Cather’s work, and exploring the prairie and rural environs. … own life experiences—such as travel—come through in her own writing. What are you doing this summer at the National …
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Newly Appointed Board Members Announced
… community as I’ve experienced it at conferences, in the archives, on tours of Red Cloud, and I look forward to …
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Attention Educators: 2016-17 Student Outreach Opportunities
… contact Education Director Tracy Tucker, ttucker@willacather.org or 402-746- 2653. We hope to see you and your … to a performance of Hamlet at 7:00 p.m. in the Red Cloud Opera House, Nebraska Shakespeare will host hands-on theatre … information. As always, we hope that you will be teaching Cather in your English classrooms this year. The WCF offers …
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2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success
… Image 2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success July 24, 2015 2015 was … very special year for the Willa Cather Foundation’s annual Spring Conference. As we celebrated our 60th Spring Conference in …
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61st Annual Spring Conference Call for Papers
… Call for Papers September 8, 2015 “Both Bitter and Sweet”: Cather, Literature, and the Great War CALL FOR PAPERS The … First World War and represent a time to re-examine Cather’s writing of that period, particularly her 1922 novel One of … Tracy Tucker, along with a short resumé or vita ( ttucker@willacather.org ). The 61st annual Willa Cather Spring …
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Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012
… 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium preceding it will be focused on Cather … critical attention. In much the same way, the scholarly edition of Cather's Poems, now in preparation, will be among … models when she moved from the drawing rooms of Alexander's Bridge (1912) to the Nebraska prairies in O Pioneers! …
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Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012
… Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012 October 26, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the … Willa Cather Memorial Prairie with time for on-site nature writing; and a reception that provides participants with the …
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"Hard Punishments": Fragments of a Lost Work
… of a Lost Work December 16, 2011 At her death in 1947, Willa Cather was working on a story -- or perhaps a novel -- set … titled "Hard Punishments." By all surviving accounts, the writing Cather had completed was destroyed upon her death, …
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