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Summer Snow: A Celebration of Landscape

… the preservation of the oldest trees, recalling how the “pioneers feel the cottonwoods are bound up with their …
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Virtual Author Series: Lynda Beck Fenwick

… a fascinating examination of the homesteader culture and prairie landscape featured in Willa Cather's novels as … Fenwick will share passages from her recent book Prairie Bachelor: The Story of A Kansas Homesteader and the Populist Movement, …
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59th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Jun 5, 2014 | 12am - Saturday, Jun 7, 2014 | 12am The Willa Cather Foundation 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE … both within Cather studies and beyond. From her earliest fiction, Cather was closely attuned to the world around her, … on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie 5:30 p.m. Barbecue and music at the Burlington Depot, featuring Formerly Three of …
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Plain Views: Pastel and Photography

… Views: Pastel and Photography . Based on the homestead photographs of Solomon Butcher, Lohr’s portraits of women … the titles of her paintings, the unnamed faces of Butcher’s photographs are remembered anew. Through his nature and …
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2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Literary Landscapes: Environments and Ecosystems  The Willa Cather Foundation is pleased to welcome Clay … both within Cather studies and beyond. From her earliest fiction, Cather was closely attuned to the world around her, … on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie 5:30 p.m. Barbecue and music at the Burlington Depot, featuring Formerly Three of …
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Virtual Book Talk with Julie Olin-Ammentorp

… 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

… 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"

… 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

… 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

… the stenographer is an exceptionally good one and knows how to spell. The responsibility is something awful. I dream … with an intensely nervous manner. When all those people began at him I thought it was simply no use to try and was … affairs are going much better than they were this winter and I am doing my work better. That is I am learning …
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