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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains

… Trails Across the Great Plains August 28, 2019 “The road ran about like a wild thing, avoiding the deep draws, … crossing them where they were wide and shallow. And all along it, wherever it looped or ran, the sunflowers grew; … When Jim Burden recalls the legend of “the sunflower-bordered roads to freedom” in  My Ántonia , he remembers the …
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Meet Intern William Kelly

… say my favorite book is tied between O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark . The former because Cather gives words to feelings I … up on all of Cather’s books. I’m just about done with The Song of the Lark . So after that, I’ll move on to the famed …
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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 21, 2017 Willa … her emergent modernism. An epilogue by the editors of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather addresses how the recent …
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Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder Joins Cather Legacy Society

… Image Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder Joins Cather Legacy Society May 24, 2017 Reflecting back on her first Spring Conference many … characters were. As a high school sophomore, she chose The Song of the Lark for a class project, foreshadowing her future career as …
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2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success

… Image 2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success July 24, 2015 2015 was a very special year for the Willa Cather … on both the publication centenary of Cather’s novel, The Song of the Lark , and the larger discussion surrounding the novel, that …
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61st Annual Spring Conference Call for Papers

… Literature, and the Great War CALL FOR PAPERS The years 2014–2018 mark the centennial of the First World War and … on war, explored through her novels written during WWI— The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia — and through her letters, her essays …
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Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge

… House (1925) August: My Mortal Enemy (1926) September: Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) October: Shadows on the Rock (1931) …
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Special Offer: Cather Country Retreat

… Image Special Offer: Cather Country Retreat October 13, 2014 The Willa Cather Foundation … lodging at the historic Cather Second Home; and two guided tours of the Cather historic sites. The community of Red …
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14th International Seminar

… life and art; discussions of the significance of canyons, rocks, and mesas in Cather's work; studies of music, art, …
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"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"

… Image "Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing" July 23, 2009 The 2010 Willa Cather Spring … by Professor Susan Meyer of Wellesley College, and a barn dance supper based on Cather's Nebraska story, " The …
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