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Big Plans for the Publication Centenary of My Ántonia in 2018

… Image Big Plans for the Publication Centenary of My Ántonia in 2018 December 20, 2017 The Willa Cather … centenary of one of Cather’s most widely read novels, My Ántonia . “For many people, reading My Ántonia in high school is their first introduction to not …
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Safeguarding the Windows at Grace Episcopal Church

… or click on images in the sidebar to enlarge. When the Willa Cather Foundation was gifted the Grace Episcopal Church by … 1971 Fall Newsletter, Vol. 15 : "Restoration," page 2 1983 Literary Issue, Vol. 27 : "Grace Church, Red Cloud: A 'True …
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Maureen Corrigan - "All the Glittering Prizes"

… Conference Friday, Jun 3, 2022 | 7 - 8:30pm Red Cloud Opera House 413 North Webster St. Red Cloud , NE 68970 … Corrigan's appearance is made possible by the Nebraska Cather Collaborative and the Philip and Helen Cather Southwick Fund at the University of Nebraska …
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Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”

… Shadow — Paintings Inspired by the Art and Life of Willa Cather is showing at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery through June 30 and will be featured in our 66th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference in June. Karen will be in Red Cloud …
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Virtual Book Talk With Daryl W. Palmer

… Image Opera House Thursday, Nov 19, 2020 | 7 - 8:30pm Join us for an engaging book talk with … the relationship with Nebraska in the years leading up to O Pioneers! is more dynamic than many have thought.  Palmer is …
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Meet Intern William Kelly

… Image Meet Intern William Kelly June 26, 2019 It is both refreshing and encouraging to have young … to do), but I would say my favorite book is tied between O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark . The former because …
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Celebrating 100 Years of My Ántonia

… Image Celebrating 100 Years of My Ántonia October 13, 2017 “Here at Last is an American Novel”: Celebrating 100 Years of My Ántonia 63rd annual Willa Cather Spring Conference Red … | May 31–June 2, 2018 When critic Randolph Bourne heralded My Ántonia as the arrival of the “American novel,” in 1918, …
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2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success

… Image 2015 Spring Conference & Seminar a Great Success July 24, 2015 2015 was … very special year for the Willa Cather Foundation’s annual Spring Conference. As we celebrated our 60th Spring Conference in …
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Red Cloud, Nebraska

… Image Red Cloud, Nebraska Willard Thorp, in "American Writing in the Twentieth Century" says, "from the literary standpoint, Red Cloud ranks as one of the most … largest living memorial to an author in the country. Willa Cather spent her childhood in this small railroad town, and …
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Reflections from the Prairie Writers' Workshop by Timothy Schaffert

… Writers' Workshop by Timothy Schaffert July 24, 2009 Willa Cather taught in a writers' workshop in  1922, at Middlebury … in Omaha. His short fiction has been published in several literary journals and he has won numerous awards, including …
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