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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Jun 5 - Saturday, Jun 7, 2025 | All day CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 … a year-long celebration of Cather's 1918 novel as a title selected by the National Endowment for the Arts' 2024-2025 … young adults. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she has also received the PEN Center USA Lifetime …
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19th International Willa Cather Seminar

… Seminar invites proposals for papers on Cather’s relationship to region, broadly construed, and especially papers … and the Rustbelt Literary regionalism: Cather’s relationship to earlier literary regionalism and to regional … to Cather’s work are encouraged to make proposals. Scholarships will be available for select student presenters from …
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National Willa Cather Center

… Image National Willa Cather Center Advancing Her Legacy The National Willa Cather … always being pulled back into Nebraska.” You will be, too. About the National Willa Cather Center The National Willa …
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The Willa Cather Teacher Institute

… days immersed in the works of Willa Cather? Are you curious about how the history of Red Cloud connects to larger … can also expect comfortable B&B lodging and generous time to relax and plan for the coming year. Those who … certificate of completion and support packet which details contact hours and curriculum. Teachers Take Part In An …
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An Immersive Willa Cather Experience

… on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Image The Willa Cather Childhood Home was reopened in December 2023 after a 16-month … Red Cloud. Image The Pavelka Farmstead is on our Country Tour and is the setting of the final section of My Ántonia. …
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American Voice: An Evening With Willa Cather

… Image Image from the Willa Cather Foundation Collections & Archives at the National … Advance registration required. Registration opens May 1. About the Photo William Morrison, Haymarket Theatre, …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Image Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol Image Willa Cather statue representing Nebraska at National Statuary … Hall Selection Committee was created to select a sculptor, review and approve plans for the statue, and identify a …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. Cather … duty." We look forward to hearing more from Fajardo-Anstine about the readerly imagination that Cather's work inspires.  …
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Own A Piece of History: Willa Cather Sculpture

… Image Image Image Littleton Alston with his statue of Willa Cather at the U.S. Capitol—June 7, 2023 Own A Piece of … a piece in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Read more about—and view—the June 7, 2023 unveiling ceremony at the …
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Willa Cather Biography

… as a regional writer for decades after her passing in 1947, critics and commentators have increasingly identified … and this was a decision that transformed her career. Building upon her solid foundation as an energetic … letters.  A Lost Lady, published in 1923, is something of tour de force example of the sort of fiction Cather called …
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