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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index
… 1961 p. 1 Notes on the Financial Report p. 1 Service by Volunteers p. 1 Restoration Attracts National Attention p. 1 … p. 1 Progress Report p. 2 Donations and Museum Influence p. 2 Cather House Restoration Fund p. 2 Essay … Willa Cather and Ghostwriting AUTHOR: Deborah Lindsay Williams p. 25 TITLE: Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023
Joseph Kyle’s Last Visit Leads to Unexpected Bequest
… his father to Nebraska in 2019 for “one last visit to the Plains.” While visiting south-central Nebraska, the Kyles … he developed a deep appreciation of Nebraska and the Great Plains. When asked what he believed motivated his … impressed with the Foundation’s dedication to celebrating literature and its way of educating people about early life …
Posted: 09/27/2022
Last Updated: 12/20/2022
Meet Our “New” Director of Collections and Curation: Tracy Sanford Tucker
… backgrounds, such as prairie botany and gardening skills, photography and graphic design, and you have worked as a … you remember that we were first called the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, and so a great many of Red Cloud’s oldest … keep things—her fan mail is a great example—but living in small New York spaces, keeping must have been hard. I think …
Posted: 10/24/2022
Last Updated: 11/22/2022
Music on the Prairie
… of the Pioneers (“Tumbling Tumbleweeds”) as well as musical greats Hank Williams and Ernest Tubbs and the classic … south of Des Moines, Iowa, where she teaches writing and literature classes and coordinates the creative writing … in The Mochilla Review, The Sequel, Heritage of the Great Plains, and Eureka Studies Teaching Short Fiction. Her …
Posted: 12/27/2014
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center
… Image Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center March 25, … seminars, as well as arts and humanities events are held by the Foundation year-round in Red Cloud …
Posted: 01/04/2015
Last Updated: 07/11/2022
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 … Supplies are limited, so please make requests by December 31 . The WCF also regularly provides guest lectures, Skype …
Posted: 12/20/2017
Last Updated: 07/11/2022
Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”
… my head over my heart. I began work on a PhD in English Literature at the University of Chicago. Early on, I found … The struggle of artists. Have you been to Nebraska or the Great Plains before? I was last in Red Cloud and Lincoln in August …
Posted: 05/19/2021
Last Updated: 07/07/2021
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 …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 02/16/2015
Spring Conference Call for Papers
… Image Image Spring Conference Call for Papers December 5, 2011 Willa Cather, … 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium preceding it will be held May 31-June 2, … Spring" at the beginning of her "real" first novel, O Pioneers! , yet her actual first book, April Twilights …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 09/18/2014
2014 Spring Conference Highlights
… recent nonfiction publications related to landscape and literature, and memoirist Julene Bair, author of the … were shown in the Red Cloud Opera House about our Great Plains Heritage. Conference-goers were also able to see some …
Posted: 09/09/2014
Last Updated: 09/11/2014