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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United … whom almost nothing was lost, will later use this event in one of her most famous novels,  My Antonia . 1882  — Red … Register of Historic Places and open year-round for guided tours. Winter 1883 to 1884  — Willa Cather attends a one-room …
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Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… Willa Cather Statue Dedication & Opening Reception Special Events Sunday, Oct 29, 2023 | 2 - 3pm Grand Island Public …
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Announcing the Inaugural Cohort in the Willa Cather Residency for Writers

… Cather’s 150th birthday. “We were delighted by the enormous response and outstanding applications,” said Ashley … senior editor at  Harper’s Magazine  and her book of essays about women writers,  A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women … received fellowships from MacDowell and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Kirsten …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor

… Taylor Image Image "Chasing Bright Medusas" Special Events Thursday, Oct 19, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now …
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O Pioneers!

… Image © Tracy Sanford Tucker for the National Willa Cather Center A University of …
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Pavelka Farmstead

… 4 near Bladen. Restored and managed by the National Willa Cather Center, the Pavelka Farmstead was chosen as one of … My Ántonia at 100 (issue theme) —  Willa Cather Review, Volume 60: No. 3, Winter 2018 New Scholarship on My Ántonia … Plains Quarterly , Spring 1994, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln From the National …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Collection, Willa Cather Foundation Collections  and Archives at the National Willa Cather Center, Red Cloud, …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… spanned from 1922-24 featuring different authors writing about 48 states. In 2003, John Leonard wrote in the Nation , … articles by a distinguished, skeptical and contentious group of writers–novelists, journalists, educators, … formative years—the only period when it can really lay a foundation for a thorough understanding of a foreign …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration July 21, 2022 The Willa Cather … cedar shingle roof, gutters, and downspouts Repair of the foundation and reconstruction of window wells Retention of … 30-minute narrated tour of the Willa Cather Childhood Home. About the Willa Cather Childhood Home Opened in 1967 and …
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Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… 4, 2023 | All day In 2007, photographer and Willa Cather Foundation executive director Betty Kort created forty … exhibition allows Cather’s readers to consider these precious museum objects in juxtaposition with her timeless words.     About the Artist: Betty Kort Betty Kort is a former …
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