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Willa Cather Historic Sites selected as a 2015 Nebraska Passport Destination

… Image Willa Cather Historic Sites selected as a 2015 Nebraska Passport Destination May 13, 2015 The Nebraska Tourism Commission presents the 80 featured stops in the 2015 Nebraska Passport Program. The Passport program encourages …
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56th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image 56th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference February 7, 2011 In May 1916, Willa … of popular music, movies, and books, to her writings about actresses and opera stars, Cather regularly engaged …
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National Willa Cather Center Meets Challenges, Enters Final Campaign Stage

… Image National Willa Cather Center Meets Challenges, Enters Final Campaign … is to raise the balance required of $915,129 by Spring 2015 in order to let bids and enter the construction phase … Willa Cather Foundation through an expanded bookstore, art gallery, and backstage facilities for the adjacent Red Cloud …
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Willa Cather State Historic Site Featured in 2012 Nebraska Passport

… Image Willa Cather State Historic Site Featured in 2012 Nebraska … viewing on the native 608-acre Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. Tourists in the area are also encouraged to visit … Museum of the Prairie Pioneer in nearby Grand Island. To learn more about this year's Nebraska Passport, visit …
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Registration for Willa Cather Spring Conference in Now Open!

… Image Registration for Willa Cather Spring Conference in Now Open! March 2, 2010 "Food … Spring Conference is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about the works, life and times of one of the 20th century's …
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National Willa Cather Center Meets Challenges, Enters Final Campaign Stage

… Image National Willa Cather Center Meets Challenges, Enters Final Campaign Stage … Built just three years after Willa Cather and her family moved to the area, the "Moon Block" would become a … Willa Cather Foundation through an expanded bookstore, art gallery, and backstage facilities for the adjacent Red Cloud …
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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… + tax Address:  541 North Seward Street, Red Cloud, Nebraska Reservations:  Please reserve online with Air BNB. … is accessed through a shared half bathroom. Named after the Nebraska town in  O Pioneers! , the room is above the former … by Margie Anderson, a life-long domestic worker who came to Nebraska with the Cather family, and is buried in the family …
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Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder

… into novels and short stories such as My Ántonia , The Song of the Lark , "The Sculptor's Funeral," and "The Affair at Grover …
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Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience

… Image Image Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the … Abbie Loomis was thirteen years old when she discovered Willa Cather. Her mother was a voracious reader, and My … all winter. I want them to feel that and not to just think about it as some out-there story. History doesn’t mean much …
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Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home

… Image Image Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home March 6, … and son of Charles Hugh Miner and Alfretta “Retta” Ayre, Willa Cather’s first cousin. It was Hugh's sisters, Carrie … three, her father and aunt Kay Jones Smith shared stories about summers in Nebraska at the J.L. Miner House. Jaydene’s …
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