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Cather Weekend on Governors Island

… – Nolan Park Governors Island , NY 10004 United States The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) is partnering with the Empire State … write her life story. The novel is important both for its literary aesthetic and as a portrayal of important aspects …
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Literary Societies—Annotations from the Archive

… Image Image Literary Societies—Annotations from the Archive August 17, … students returning to school, we always think of Frances Cather, Willa Cather's Mount Holyoke-educated aunt who came West to …
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Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home

… Image Image Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home March 6, … and son of Charles Hugh Miner and Alfretta “Retta” Ayre, Willa Cather’s first cousin. It was Hugh's sisters, Carrie … in her career. “I think Cather really helped women in the literary community, but also in general, being able to …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor

… 2023 | 7pm Discussion #1: My Ántonia As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed novelist … the novel that catapulted Cather's career to a new level of literary success and established her as the preeminent voice …
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A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society

… Image A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society July 13, 2016 “ I feel blessed that … prior to a trip to Egypt in 2015, they made sure that the Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was included in their estate … Cather.  It’s an amalgamation of America.  If it was a pure literary society or a pure historic preservation society, …
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Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… Image Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published January 10, 2012 Fragments from … and honored to have the permission of the Willa Cather Literary Trust to share these glimpses of Cather's last …
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Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

… Image Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of … Seminars, Elderhostels, Prairie Writers’ Workshops, and Newsletter & Review exemplify the WCF’s commitment to academic and …
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Turn the Page Literary Tour

… Image Turn the Page Literary Tour July 3, 2013 The Willa Cather State Historic …
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Annotations from the Archive: April Twilights

… from the Archive: April Twilights April 8, 2025 Though Willa Cather is known worldwide as a novelist, her first published … at ttucker@willacather.org.   Resources: Willa Cather: A Literary Life, by James Woodress. Letter to Fred Otte, 28 …
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Unseen & Underfoot: The Hidden Diversity of the Plains

… Helicotylenchus, the "spiral" nematode, collected at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie A special science exhibition in the … Old Northwest Quarterly, Whirlwind, and Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest (forthcoming 2025). David …
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