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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 … Seminars, Elderhostels, Prairie Writers’ Workshops, and Newsletter & Review exemplify the WCF’s commitment to academic and …
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Local artists' exhibit at the Red Cloud Opera House

… have to their land in her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, One of Ours . Protagonist Claude Wheeler, a farm boy from Nebraska, …
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Willa Cather Spring Conference Offers FREE Events

… Conference Offers FREE Events May 26, 2016 The Willa Cather Foundation hosts their 61st annual Willa Cather Spring … events and exhibits that are offered free through the support of Humanities Nebraska , the Nebraska Arts Council , … in 1955 and headquartered in Red Cloud, the Willa Cather Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization …
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Willa Cather Foundation Collection Continues to Grow

… music through the air out of the silence of the attic. As one of the members of the committee that worked to raise the … Perry (“G. P.”) Cather, the model for Claude Wheeler in One of Ours , was their middle child (of five). Many once carefully …
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Leroy Maruhn - Our Miriam Mountford Volunteer of the Year

… Leroy started volunteering last year he was quite clear about one thing. “I don’t want anything, I don’t want … Owens’s mother and works as a tour guide at the National Willa Cather Center. Jen Schriner de Jager, on our facilities …
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Member Spotlight: Meet Frank Markley

… at the University of Akron in Ohio. He chose a literature course on regional writers; Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case” and One of Ours were among the assigned readings. In 1975, … perusing a Rand McNally map, he spotted the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and decided to visit what he presumed would …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… Cather’s books about that time—like My Àntonia and O Pioneers! and One of Ours— allow us to picture what life must have been like for …
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61st Annual Spring Conference Call for Papers

… writing of that period, particularly her 1922 novel One of Ours , which won the Pulitzer Prize. Scholars are invited to … are not limited to: • the critical and popular reception of One of Ours , the novel’s stance on the war, and comparisons …
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Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge

… of Willa Cather's novels in order of their publication, one per month, from January 2012 through December 2012. The … List: January: Alexander's Bridge (1912) February: O Pioneers! (1913) March: The Song of the Lark (1915) April: My Ántonia (1918) May: One of Ours (1922) June: A Lost Lady (1923) July: The Professor's …
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George Cather Home

… Cather home, just south of Bladen, was the setting for One of Ours . In the pasture west of the house, George and Frances … of George Cather, was the prototype for Claude Wheeler in One of Ours . “When he came up the hill like this, toward …
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