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Cranes & Cather: Migration in Life and Literature

… | 6am - 8pm National Willa Cather Center 425 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States Join us Friday, … Twyla Hansen, former state poet of Nebraska and author of Rock • Tree • Bird , and a short lecture by biologist Larkin Powell, who …
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Cather Book Club: All The Light We Cannot See

… Sep 15, 2016 | 4 - 6:30pm Cherry Corner Estates and the Cather Second Home 40 N Cherry St. Corner of 6th and Seward … St. Red Cloud , 68970 United States On September 15 the Willa Cather Book Club will meet to discuss All The Light We … club, we read a number of short pieces related to the First World War; we begin this year with Doerr’s excellent story …
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Annotations from the Archive: The Death of G.P. Cather

… , Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize–winner for fiction, allows us a chance to reflect on the life—and death—of Willa … of the American infantry’s defining battles—details about the death of Lieutenant Cather were relayed to his … enthusiasts, and others curious about our Willa Cather Foundation Collections & Archives at the National WIlla …
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A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society

… small town in Nebraska that can claim one of the most famous authors in the world, so I’m happy to have the … of supporting in a financial way the things you care about.” Considering this, it’s not surprising that when … trip to Egypt in 2015, they made sure that the Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was included in their estate plans. As …
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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 Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame … drew on her own experiences of growing up on the frontier prairies of Nebraska. But Cather was born in Virginia, lived …
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MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner

… and Education Specialist Rachel Olsen. This event came about from Karr’s summer 4-H project, the idea to share a … captivated her young audience with recollections about the Dust Bowl—“I thought it was the end of the world!” she … she said. As part of its mission, the Willa Cather Foundation helps support K-12 educational initiatives by …
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"And now I must dress to receive the Planets, dear"—Willa Cather, Edith Lewis, Jupiter & Venus

… Image "And now I must dress to receive the Planets, dear"—Willa Cather, Edith Lewis, Jupiter & Venus December 21, 2020 Willa … intimate, and reveals Cather's connection with the natural world around her, and the entire cosmos, wherever she …
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Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing

… Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing March 27, 2022 As part of their … a thrill when we find that a company outside the publishing world has as much enthusiasm for our great authors as we …
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Jane Renner Hood Joins Cather Legacy Society

… Image Jane Renner Hood Joins Cather Legacy Society January 23, 2017 Like her parents and … this commitment is what gives life value. Her dream for the Willa Cather Foundation is that we continue to bring … Cather’s words to as many people as possible around the world. A person of action, Hood has invested in this dream …
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Cather Homestead

… Image Image Cather Homestead Northwest of the New Virginia Church is the … the Cather homestead—the Burden homestead in My Ántonia . Willa Cather came here in 1883. Even then she was aware of … up again on the other side. I had the feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, …
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