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

… Image Laura Bush Speaks at the Dedication of the National Willa Cather Center June 3, 2017 On June 3rd, nearly 300 guests … of not just Nebraska’s, not just America’s, but one of the world’s great writers, Willa Cather.” The National Willa …
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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… Image Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation … most iconic writers. Tourists and scholars from around the world visit Red Cloud because of its associations with Willa … role in Cather’s writings, symbolizing both escape to the world and the door through which the world came to Red …
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Save America's Treasures Grant Awarded for Restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood Home

… America's Treasures Grant Awarded for Restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood Home September 26, 2019 With intent to … History Nebraska in early 2019. “Visitors from all over the world remark that walking through the doors of Cather’s …
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Alex Ross to Keynote 65th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… it relates to the artists that populate the world of her  Youth and the Bright Medusa , which celebrates its publication centenary this …
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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 the best times of year to visit Red Cloud. Sunrises linger over the brick façades of … experience with historic and cultural attributes, unique lodging and dining, and a spectacular prairie landscape far …
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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

… Cather’s poetry provides clues that help us to define her biography. While socially isolating, Cather fans should …
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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 … the complexities of Cather’s life and art—domesticity and worldliness; home and travel; happiness and sadness; the …
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