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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Birthplace Fund Funds needed for preservation efforts As American author Willa Cather’s 150th was celebrated in 2023, her birth home, a rural … remains a testament to the humble, rural origins of a great writer who, toward the end of her life, struggled to …
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Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… Museum in Lincoln and at the National Willa Cather Center’s Opera House in Red Cloud. Following the livestream at the Nebraska …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… to visit, Hommage: Willa Cather , on view at the Red Cloud Opera House Art Gallery, and Travis Hencey's new exhibit, The … Mason will read an original poem about Willa Cather and the house that brings so many of her readers to Red Cloud.  …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … to the elements and ensure an improved environment for collections. The exterior was repainted in the familiar …
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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 … of the novel Woman of Light and the widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina & Corina , a finalist for the …
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Willa Cather Biography

… northern Virginia to the pioneering prairie of the Nebraska Divide—a sensitive child at a critical age—was in many ways … for an incipient writer: though sparsely settled, the Divide between the Republican and Blue rivers offered her … put them too in some of her novels. During her time on the Divide, Cather attended a one-room school house, but Charles …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… and is buried near a crossroads. Cather, on whom almost nothing was lost, will later use this event in one of her … train with the rest of the family to Red Cloud. Also accompanying the family are Rachel Boak, the hired girl Marjorie … the Farmers and Merchants Bank is completed. It will close just four years later, a victim of the Panic of 1893. Blind …
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63rd annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… open to the public thanks to grant support from Humanities Nebraska . Thursday, May 31 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.: Special Guest … professor of English and anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a former essayist for CBS News Sunday … for a Pushcart Prize and for The Best New American Voices . Her work has appeared in The New York Times , Orion …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Coverage p. 3  Portrait Bust of Cather p. 4  Mailing of Newsletter p. 4  … AUTHOR: Willa Cather  TITLE: Great Forking Trees (from a 1921 Cather Interview in the Lincoln State Journal) p. 2  … of Grace  AUTHOR: John J. Murphy p. 13  John J. Murphy Volume at Cather Book Shop p. 15  WCPM announces 1985 trip …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… also marked the 100th anniversary of her Pulitzer Prize for  One of Ours , as well as publication centenaries of  A … matching funds provided by the  Willa Cather Foundation’s  Campaign for the Future .  Book clubs and teachers around the country are …
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