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Laura Bush Speaks at the Dedication of the National Willa Cather Center

… the country contributed to the campaign. Executive Director Ashley Olson noted, “With the completion of this project, our rich …
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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… Image Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather … National Willa Cather Center will remain a primary location to learn about and research one of America's most … Places and open for guided tours regularly: Willa Cather’s Childhood Home , a National Historic Landmark, was the …
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Save America's Treasures Grant Awarded for Restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood Home

… said National Willa Cather Center Executive Director Ashley Olson. “We’re grateful to the Historic Preservation Fund and … (Smithsonian: Washington, D.C.); the restoration of the Olson House, the site of American artist Andrew Wyeth’s …
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Alex Ross to Keynote 65th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Alex Ross to Keynote 65th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference May 19, 2020 Join us as we welcome … Fremstad, and the Singer in Fiction," will focus on the world of Cather's singers, particularly as it relates to the …
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Willa Cather in the Great "Spanish Flu" Pandemic

… Image Willa Cather in the Great "Spanish Flu" Pandemic March 31, 2020 1918 was a pivotal year for Willa Cather and the world. She would publish My Ántonia , delayed until the fall … the great "Spanish Flu" pandemic raged throughout the world. (Cather's own bout with influenza would come in the …
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Experience Willa Cather's World in New Ways

… Image Experience Willa Cather's World in New Ways October 21, 2020 Autumn is one of … Street, while sunsets are especially dramatic at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie . As Cather herself wrote in …
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Students Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely!

… Image Students Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely! June 25, 2020 … novels by Patricia Briggs, Braxton appreciates skillful world-building in writing, and being in Red Cloud in person …
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National Willa Cather Center Celebrates National Poetry Month

… been overlooked by readers,” commented executive director, Ashley Olson. “Like much of her fiction, Cather’s poetry provides …
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New! Cather Studies 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux

… Image New! Cather Studies 11: Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux August … made herself a modernist through the poems, stories, and novels she wrote and published into the twentieth century. … these essays detail Cather’s shaping of the world of the early twentieth century and later into a singular modernism …
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IMLS-Funded Exhibit to Open in the National Willa Cather Center

… Image IMLS-Funded Exhibit to Open in the National Willa Cather Center September 21, 2015 Thanks to a Learning … center for approximately 8,000 national and international visitors annually. The exhibit, to be entitled American …
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