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Cather Weekend on Governors Island

… August 19 and Sunday, August 20. Saturday, August 19th 11:30 p.m. – Willa Cather’s Life in Letters When Willa Cather … and Other Poems . 2:30 p.m. – Selected Readings from The Song of the Lark The Song of the Lark (1915) is the story of an artist’s …
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Literary Societies—Annotations from the Archive

… Image Image Literary Societies—Annotations from the Archive … Island College. She participated in the Webster County Teachers' Institute and seems never to have stopped … societies and in Red Cloud, the Ladies Clio Club also held educational meetings and events. The literary societies met …
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Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home

… Miner grew up as the third generation in the J.L. Miner House, or the Harling House in My Ántonia . He was the … three, her father and aunt Kay Jones Smith shared stories about summers in Nebraska at the J.L. Miner House. Jaydene’s … which is why she has decided to include the Willa Cather Foundation in her estate plan. “After seeing how the history …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor

… A Lost Lady September 21, at 7:00 pm CT: The Professor's House October 19, at 7:00 pm CT: Death Comes for the …
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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 Fame … nine authors into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Willa Cather is among this prestigious group of seven … Foundation has worked to preserve and promote the art, literary, and historical collection relating to the life, …
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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 … nematodes are replacing chemical insecticides throughout Europe as a preferred biological control of insects. …
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