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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation efforts As American author Willa Cather’s 150th was celebrated in 2023, … who, toward the end of her life, struggled to write the story of her home state.  Sapphira and the Slave Girl  …
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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 … She was a self-made woman who spent most of her adult life living and working in New York City. Among other narratives, …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… her “library,” with her books labeled and sometimes numbered in the back room of her father’s office. As our … to visit, Hommage: Willa Cather , on view at the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery, and Travis Hencey's new exhibit, …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A … Cather house is vividly described in Cather's novel,  The Song of the Lark , and short stories, “Old Mrs. Harris,” and “The Best …
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Premiere of Willa Cather: Breaking the Mold

… Spring Conference Thursday, Jun 6, 2024 | 7 - 8pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster St. Red Cloud , NE 68970 United …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather is … Lewis. "The United States knows Nebraska because of Willa Cather's books." Image George Marsden, for … and deliberate, unconscious. It must, indeed, be a way of living" (78). The Early Years, 1873-1890 Cather was born in …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Cloud are officially organized. 1872  — Charles Cather and Mary Virginia Boak marry on December 5 at the home of the … poems titled  April Twilights , is published. Cather meets lifelong companion Edith Lewis. 1905  — Cather’s first … and muckraking journals. 1907  —  The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science  is …
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63rd annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… May 31, 2018 | 12am - Saturday, Jun 2, 2018 | 12am National Willa Cather Center 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 … and attended Nebraska Wesleyan University, with majors in History and English Literature. Antonia lives in Minnesota, …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… 2.1  Spring 1958  Editor: Mildred R. Bennett  Officers and Board … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip … Red Cloud: Willa Cather's Window to the World June 7-11, 2010 P. 51 Prairie Writers' Workshop July 2010 p. 51 …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are commemorating acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s 150th year with a host of special events … Service, with matching funds provided by the  Willa Cather Foundation’s  Campaign for the Future .  Book clubs and …
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