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Support the Willa Cather Birthplace Fund

… Image Willa Cather's birthplace, a rural farmhouse in the Shenandoah … uses for the site, including educational programs, literary events, and community gatherings that honor Willa … rural origins of a great writer who, toward the end of her life, struggled to write the story of her home state.  …
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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 … Hall, and I'm thrilled that Nebraska will finally have a literary heroine representing our state in the U.S. …
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69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image Image Willa Cather reads to her brother Jack and sister Elsie. Cather … pleased by hearing the comments of her own readers. From an early age, she established her “library,” with her books … areas: Representations of readers and reading in Cather’s novels and short stories.   How readers navigate challenging …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … will resume in March of 2024. Guests who book a tour in the early weeks of that month will have an opportunity to see … 150 Years of Willa Cather Perhaps best known for her novels My Ántonia , O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the …
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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 … on December 7, 1873, the eldest of an eventual seven children raised by Charles and Mary Virginia Cather. Cathers had been in the area since the 1700s, and Back …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… move into town. Red Cloud’s population at the time is 2,500. Charles Cather opens an office selling farm loans and … of the Panic of 1893. Blind Boone, a well-known African American pianist, performs at the Red Cloud Opera House. … it is only a coincidence that passages in his book  The Great Gatsby  closely resemble a passage in Cather’s  A Lost …
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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 …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Nebraska Council of Teachers of English: Nebraska Literary maps by, 3.2:2, scholarship             competition, … 5.2:1, 2. See also             Willa Cather Societies; maps listed on, 7.1:2, 12.2:3; officer/board meetings, …
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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 throughout 2023 and 2024. December 7, 2023 marked the 150th anniversary of Willa Cather's birth. The year …
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