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Guided Willa Cather Tours

… include the Willa Cather Childhood Home. Please check our hours of operation when planning your visit, and be sure to scroll through the full list of tour … home to the windswept prairie that memorializes her, visitors of all ages and backgrounds are guaranteed to …
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2025 Willa Cather Residency Cohort Announced

… Image 2025 Willa Cather Residency Cohort Announced Cohort in Residence October 5-19 June 17, 2025 The National Willa Cather Center is pleased to announce members of the … Quarterly ,  Jellyfish Review ,  Pulp Literature , and others. She holds an MFA from the University of Alaska. …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

… follows. Banquet & Readers Theater Tickets To learn more about the recent restoration of the Willa Cather Childhood … Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason will read an original poem about Willa Cather and the house that brings so many of her … Mason Miranda Davis Featured Speaker We are delighted to welcome Miranda Davis, the 2024-2025 Nebraska Youth Poet …
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Retired Teacher Leaves Unexpected Gift to the Willa Cather Foundation

… Retired Teacher Leaves Unexpected Gift to the Willa Cather Foundation April 10, 2025 Ask Loren Johnson’s former … kindness and compassion. In fact, Johnson cared so deeply about others that he rarely shared much about his own life … said Pedroza, a retired theology professor. “He made all of us perform and develop at our best. There were at least a …
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Willa Cather Memorial Prairie

… Image Willa Cather Memorial Prairie The Willa Cather Memorial Prairie is a botanical … others grace the edges of our visitor trails.  As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water …
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Stargazing on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie

… Image Garrett Peck Image Star Gazing at the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference With Garrett Peck Spring Conference … He leads the Willa Cather's Santa Fe tour, among others, and teaches stargazing in New Mexico's dark skies. …
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"Willa Cather and the Counterculture" - Registration Closed

… the best of its historic and arts offerings, while learning about Cather’s time in New Mexico. We’ll discuss and share from … who had his own vision of the counterculture lifestyle. “Willa Cather and the Counterculture” explores Cather’s …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short Biography of Willa Cather 1873–1947 Willa Cather was born in Back Creek … Quebec, and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, among others. Cather’s literature found national and international …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… in the centenary year of her Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska … .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career … for Statuary Hall, and I'm thrilled that Nebraska will finally have a literary heroine representing our state in …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. Cather … music drive her to create a better world for herself and others through words. Davis's poetry has been published in …
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