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2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Literary Landscapes: Environments and Ecosystems  The Willa Cather Foundation is pleased to welcome Clay Jenkinson, … In O Pioneers! and My Ántonia , Cather was the first American novelist to treat the Plains of Nebraska as …
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Virtual Book Talk with Julie Olin-Ammentorp

… Image Opera House Thursday, Feb 18, 2021 | 7pm Join us for an … status and their perennial popularity, Wharton (1862-1937) and Cather (1873-1947) have rarely been studied … prairie populist who describes the lives of rugged western pioneers. These depictions, while partially valid, overlook …
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Legends & Stories: The Changing Ecology of the Great Plains

… Image Image Friday, Mar 22, 2019 | 5:15am - 3:30pm Rowe Sanctuary 44450 Elm Island Rd Gibbon , NE 68440 … will offer readings and discussion of Cather's novel O Pioneers! and, once in Red Cloud, guests will enjoy a …
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Artist Reception: Margaret Berry's "Prairie Apothecary"

… Image Image Image Art Gallery Saturday, Jul 21, 2018 | 5:30 - 7pm Red Cloud Opera House Gallery 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , … settings. Prairie plants were often medicinal for the pioneers and Berry has created a modern apothecary as a balm …
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Annotations from the Archive—The Right Reverend George Allen Beecher Letters

… Image Annotations from the Archive—The Right Reverend George Allen … who served as Bishop of Western Nebraska from 1910-1943, shared a long friendship with Willa Cather, and with the … windows, and how many of Webster county’s “old-time pioneers who had known and loved Ms. Cather” best, had …
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Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days

… (March 28, 1897), with these observations at the start of Cather's early and prolific career in magazine writing and … literary tastes are, her club standing, her home, her legal studies, how she came to take them up etc. You know what I … bank he is president of. Well I did'nt mean to write you a volume, and of course nothing may come of it. But my …
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Dr. Shelley Stamp — "Willa Cather and Company"

… Image Spring Conference Friday, Jun 2, 2023 | 7 - 8pm National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster … An expert on women in Hollywood, she curated the 6-disk set Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers , and is a Founding Editor …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of … TITLE: "Dissolved into Something Complete and Great": The Cathers and the Beginnings of Webster County  AUTHOR: Ann … Nebraska" poem, 14.1:1 Jaffrey, New Hampshire: Cather gravesite at, 18.3:2; “High Mowing” at 17.1:3 James, Henry, …
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Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… Image Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published January 10, 2012 … purchased from Cather Books & Gifts by calling 402-746-2653 or online at www.WillaCather.org. Willa Cather has been … her later works include Alexander’s Bridge (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), and A Lost Lady (1923), …
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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 March 21, 2011 … accept the honor on behalf of Ms. Cather. Willa Cather (1873-1947) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who … first achieved national recognition for novels such as O Pioneers! and My Ántonia, in which she drew on her own …
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