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25th Anniversary of the Norma Rose Walter Scholarship Program

… Walter Scholarship Program April 20, 2011 Since 1987, the Willa Cather Foundation has awarded 29 scholarships totaling more … award-presentation--held on April 29th at the 56th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference--had special guests in …
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View "Portraits of the Prairie" Exhibit

… the Prairie" Exhibit November 4, 2011 It is often called "Catherland"-Webster County, Nebraska, where the quintessential American novelist Willa Cather spent her childhood and found inspiration for … take us to Red Cloud, Cather's childhood home; to the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, a botanical jewel of …
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Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

… May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium … Cather's Poems, now in preparation, will be among the last volumes published in that series by the University of … be sent by February 15, 2012 to: Robert Thacker Canadian Studies Program St. Lawrence University Canton, New York …
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Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012

… Workshop: May 17-20, 2012 October 26, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the world she knew best, she turned for inspiration to the Nebraska prairie that affected her youth. Each year, the Willa Cather …
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2013 Spring Conference

… Image 2013 Spring Conference June 5, 2012   "We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who … celebrate the centennial of Cather's breakthrough novel O Pioneers! in which she "hit the home pasture." The novel …
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"Hard Punishments": Fragments of a Lost Work

… of a Lost Work December 16, 2011 At her death in 1947, Willa Cather was working on a story -- or perhaps a novel -- set … Charles E. Cather, who died in March 2011. In our Fall 2011 Willa Cather Newsletter & Review , we have published …
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Virtual Birthday Party

… Image Virtual Birthday Party November 21, 2012 Join the Willa Cather Foundation as we celebrate the birthday of one of the world's foremost authors, Willa Cather! In honor of Cather's 139th birthday on …
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Essay Contest Winners

… Image Essay Contest Winners September 17, 2012 "There are only two or three human stories, and they go … the 100th publication anniversary of Willa Cather's O Pioneers! , the Willa Cather Foundation is proud to announce …
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The New Virginia Church

… this area. Because this was a Methodist church, the Cathers did not attend services here but instead went to the Baptist services held in the old Catherton schoolhouse farther north. Looking east of the New … Virginia Church, you see the site of the sod school house Willa Cather attended her first year in Nebraska. Country …
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Bladen

… of the founder of the Lincoln State Journal and friend of Willa Cather, the town of Bladen boasts the home of G.P. Cather and his wife and the Bladen Opera House, where Anna …
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