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71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Willa Cather at Bowdoin College Memory, Myth, and Meaning: Cather … Jun 4 - Saturday, Jun 6, 2026 | All day CT The National Willa Cather Center 413 N Webster St Red Cloud , NE 68970 … Politics and power Aesthetics and symbolism America in the world Environment and geography American mythmaking Cather …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

… Home | April 2024 Image Guided Tours to Follow Special Events Saturday, Jun 8, 2024 | 1:30 - 2:30pm CT 245 N. Cedar …
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Willa Cather Memorial Prairie

… eastern and western meadowlarks, eastern and western king birds, upland plovers, wild turkeys, bobolinks and other New … sparrows, wood ducks and other migratory birds, and greater prairie chickens. The Cather Prairie is listed as a … the Chicken Dance Trail. We are also partners in the  Great Plains Ecotourism Coalition. The Cather Prairie also boasts …
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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… the Unmade Place , on view at the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery. Funding was provided by Humanities Nebraska and the … nothing but land waiting for development, that it is “the material out of which countries are made.” The observation …
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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 … New Mexico's dark skies. His book, The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop , will be published …
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Nothing But Land: Willa Cather and Indigenous Writers

… with late 19th century settlement culture.  Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by … Lectures and book discussions led by National Willa Cather Center leadership Place-based and online creative … Willa Cather Spring Conference My Ántonia -themed guided tours A special event at the recently restored Pavelka …
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Willa Cather Writes the Immigrant Experience in Rural Nebraska

… “Willa Cather Writes the Immigrant Experience in Rural Nebraska,” on Wednesday, November 6 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. … Literatures, will examine the immigrant experience in rural Nebraska through the lens of Cather’s distinct portrayals of … communities welcomed or excluded them. In her 1923 essay “Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle,” Cather wrote, “It is …
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Willa Cather, Wales, Wymore, and the World

… most significant American authors of the twentieth century, Willa Cather’s work was shaped by her Nebraska upbringing. Dr. … He served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Willa Cather Foundation for 22 years, has edited the Willa …
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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 … Prize Winner and Twelfth Woman in the Collection June 7, 2023 A bronze sculpture of Willa Cather by artist Littleton … of its soil, and I did not find them. And so I wrote O Pioneers! .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. Cather and the Readerly Imagination Spring Conference … 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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