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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

… was a prototype for Captain Forrester in Cather’s novel, A Lost Lady . The Grace Episcopal Church , which Cather joined in …
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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

… 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!

… Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely! June 25, 2020 Despite … Helen Cather Southwick Fund at the University of Nebraska Foundation for their support of the Humanities Internship at the National Willa …
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National Willa Cather Center Celebrates National Poetry Month

… Image National Willa Cather Center Celebrates National Poetry Month March … widely recognized that writing poetry represented some of Willa Cather’s earliest literary endeavors. Even after … 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 … Willa Cather’s position in time, in aesthetics, and in the world. Born a Victorian in 1873, Cather made herself a …
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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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