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Guided Willa Cather Tours

… Guided Willa Cather Tours The National Willa Cather Center and many of our historic sites are open … The one, three, and seven building tours all include the Willa Cather Childhood Home. Please check our hours of …
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2025 Willa Cather Residency Cohort Announced

… Residency aims to inspire new work by emergent writers.  About the Residency   MFC Feeley MFC Feeley is a fiction … ,  SmokeLong Quarterly ,  Jellyfish Review ,  Pulp Literature , and others. She holds an MFA from the … FarmGirl Press. Her poetry has been published in  Nebraska Life and in a chapbook,  Fencelines (2022). Her writing is …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home | April 2024 Image Willa Cather Childhood Home | April 2024 Image Guided Tours to …
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Retired Teacher Leaves Unexpected Gift to the Willa Cather Foundation

… in the same breath Johnson’s kindness and compassion. In fact, Johnson cared so deeply about others that he rarely … with the University of Utah. Johnson’s selfless final act didn’t surprise Harman and Pedroza, but what did come as … a dozen former students at his memorial.” Johnson’s impact on these two former students was so great that in their …
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Willa Cather Memorial Prairie

… been lost to much of the world. Of the millions of acres of grasslands that once covered the continent, only a small … grasses, indian and switch grasses, as well our native cool-season buffalo grass. The wildflower season stretches from April through October, beginning with …
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Stargazing on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie

… Garrett Peck Image Star Gazing at the 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference With Garrett Peck Spring Conference Thursday, Jun 5, 2025 | 9 - 10pm CT Willa Cather Memorial Prairie c. 7 miles south of Red Cloud on Nebraska/Kansas …
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"Willa Cather and the Counterculture" - Registration Closed

… 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 … Concha of  Taos News  interviews artists, educators, and others about their experiences living in Taos. The full …
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Short Biography of Willa Cather

… Image Willa Cather, 1921, Studio Portrait by George Marsden Short … her family moved to rural Webster County, Nebraska, and later to the town of Red Cloud, where she lived until … personal and cultural environments. While six of Cather’s novels were inspired by her Nebraska experiences, her …
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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 … not find them. And so I wrote O Pioneers! .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Jack and sister Elsie. Cather and the Readerly Imagination Spring Conference Thursday, Jun 6 - Saturday, Jun 8, 2024 | All day Register Online Now ACCESS THE WEB APP DOWNLOAD THE SPRING CONFERENCE PROGRAM Our 69th Annual Willa Cather …
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