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Celebrating Cather at 150: A Guided Holiday Tour

… tour of National Willa Cather Center historic sites! Join us on Saturdays throughout the month of December, as well as … Real, and Imagined , a traveling exhibit from ExhibitsUSA. Cookies, cider, and hot chocolate at the conclusion of … Willa Cather Center. Bringing a group or book club? Contact Rachel Olsen at  rolsen@willacather.org  for group …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Following are excerpts of that process gleaned from past newsletters. [Scroll down to read what was entered into the … Nebraska.] It Began With a Letter Writing Campaign The WCPM newsletter urged “loyal Cather admirers” to write on behalf … and alive by using your influence?” In the winter 1972 newsletter it was noted that plans were going forward for a …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones

… to support the eventual return of a third floor that was lost to fire in 1961 in a forward-looking effort to return … and prototype for Captain Forrester in Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady . When fully restored, the building will provide …
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Potter Block Ceremonial Groundbreaking

… building to support the return of a third floor that was lost to fire in 1961. Construction efforts resumed in the … and prototype for Captain Forrester in Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady . When fully restored, the building will provide …
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The Bel Canto Duo: Four Cather Tableaux

… A Lost Lady , "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," April Twilights and Other Poems, and One of Ours , publications that defined …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor

… Discussion #3: The Professor's House As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed … , and Bellow’s  There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction , also a  New   York Times  Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag,  Debriefing , was published by …
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Visions Seen in the Air: An Invitational Exhibit

… publication anniversary of one of her greatest novels:  A Lost Lady . In conjunction, we will host an invitational exhibit, … important writers of the twentieth century. As we read  A Lost Lady , Cather’s artistry and her memory are on full …
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68th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… , which celebrates its publication centenary in 2023, and other texts that Cather published in 1923, such as her revised book of poetry,  April Twilights and Other Poems .  The conference will begin the …
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Press Room

… information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, and the work of the National …
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Organization History

… by Silas Garber, prototype for Captain Forrester in  A Lost Lady  the  Burlington Depot , which appears throughout … guesthouse for Red Cloud visitors.  Image Former First Lady Laura Bush Visits the Cather Prairie The  National …
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