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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

… her 150th birthday on December 7, an event being celebrated throughout the year and across the country. The occasion … Hall, and I'm thrilled that Nebraska will finally have a literary heroine representing our state in the U.S. … share more about the process and the ceremony, Littleton's journey as an artist, the power of sculpture and the arts to …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. Cather … of the novel Woman of Light and the widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina and Corina , a finalist for the …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … in more than fifty years.  A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa Cather Childhood Home was … historic sites and landscapes related to any other American writer. While Cather moved away from Nebraska in …
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Premiere of Willa Cather: Breaking the Mold

… Conference Thursday, Jun 6, 2024 | 7 - 8pm CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster St. Red Cloud , NE 68970 United … and an Editorial Board member of the Willa Cather Review . Tracy Tucker is the Director of Collections & …
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Willa Cather Biography

… from and references to Cather’s own letters. Thus without question, the complex brilliance Skaggs saw in Cather during … more than that, of herself as a person. The character in question is the book's antagonist, Clement Sebastian, who … help secret Nancy, the enslaved girl, away from slavery to freedom in Canada. It concludes in a way reminiscent of …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas … Gere, and Dorothy Canfield. 1892  — Willa Cather becomes literary editor of the  Hesperian , student publication of … poems titled  April Twilights , is published. Cather meets lifelong companion Edith Lewis. 1905  — Cather’s first …
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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 … in The New York Times , Orion , Salon , Virginia Quarterly Review , American Short Fiction , and The Asian American …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… of contents are listed with the corresponding issue in PDF format. Summer 1957 to Current 1.1  Summer 1957  FIRST … News from Friends p. 5  Board of Governors Meeting p. 5  Endowment Fund p. 6  … Connections, 7th Annual International Willa Cather Seminar  Announcement  AUTHOR: None listed p. 69  TITLE·: Louise …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… Cather , Red Cloud, NE: a special Red Cloud Opera House Gallery exhibit of international works honoring the birth …
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