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National Willa Cather Center Meets Challenges, Enters Final Campaign Stage

… challenges—and to do so in advance of the deadlines,” said Ashley Olson, Executive Director. “This endeavor has been met with … or to get involved, visit www.WillaCather.org or contact Ashley Olson, Executive Director, aolson@willacather.org, …
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2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image 2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference March 13, 2014 Mapping Literary Landscapes: … hanging in the Red Cloud Opera House auditorium during Spring Conference. West of Last Chance won the Dorothea …
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National Willa Cather Center Meets Challenges, Enters Final Campaign Stage

… challenges—and to do so in advance of the deadlines," said Ashley Olson, Executive Director. "This endeavor has been met with … that all necessary project funds have been pledged," said Olson. "We are eager to begin a preliminary phase of …
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Conservation of Willa Cather's Attic Bedroom Wallpaper

… efforts, please contact development coordinator Ashley Olson at aolson@willacather.org or (402) 746-2653. You may also donate …
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A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society

… Image A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society July 13, 2016 “ I feel blessed that … that can claim one of the most famous authors in the world, so I’m happy to have the opportunity to give back, in … prior to a trip to Egypt in 2015, they made sure that the Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was included in their estate …
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Cather Legacy Society

… who shared that he had escorted his father to Nebraska in 2019 for “one last visit to the Plains.” Read More Joseph …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are commemorating acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s … Collection in the U.S. Capitol on June 7. Cather is the first Pulitzer Prize-winner and the twelfth woman … sixteen-month restoration —its first in more than fifty years. This National Historic Landmark was Cather’s …
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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the Willa … Cather’s writings. Another way to lose yourself in Cather's world is to take our guided  Country Tour  which highlights …
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Annotations from the Archives: Cather Press Clippings

… interesting dualities. She was intensely engaged with her small hometown, even as she became a traveler of the world; … answers. Old schoolmates, distant relatives, kindly people whom I had known in some part of the United States. . … to Houghton Mifflin's Alverda Van Tuyll, "In the first place, let me tell you how delighted I am that you get a …
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Music in Willa Cather's Writing

Image Music in Willa Cather's Writing While not a musician herself, Willa Cather was an avid musical consumer! She frequented the opera, developed acquaintances and friendships with the leading musicians of her day, and wrote them into her novels, short …
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