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71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… memory of Myra. This emotional distance creates ambiguity. Just as Nellie Birdseye constructs an image of Myra, American … mythmaking Cather and legacy building – memorialization, museums, adaptation, canonization Cather in public spaces and … are encouraged. Abstracts, along with a short bio, your contact information and institutional affiliation, should be …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home | April 2024 Image Willa Cather … and readers theater featuring selections from Cather's fiction and correspondence Your complimentary tickets to the … and Creative Writing. Her passions for poetry, nature, and music drive her to create a better world for herself and …
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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather

… Welcome to the home of Willa Cather Willa Cather Willa Cather is one of the most … organization created in 1955 that owns and operates the National Willa Cather Center and the nation's largest …
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Willa Cather Memorial Prairie

… Image Willa Cather Memorial Prairie The Willa Cather Memorial Prairie is … art, history, and culture has been lost to much of the world. Of the millions of acres of grasslands that once … upland plovers, wild turkeys, bobolinks and other New World blackbird species, vesper sparrows and their many …
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70th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Opera House Art Gallery. Funding was provided by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. The views expressed in spring … programs do not necessarily reflect the view of Humanities Nebraska or the Nebraska Cultural Endowment. Image     Jane …
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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

Image A Place Writing Workshop with Karla Hernandez Torrijos Special Events Tuesday, May 20, 2025 | 5 - 7pm CT Urban League of Nebraska Large Conference Room 3040 Lake Street Omaha , NE 68135 United States Register Online Now In partnership with the …
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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

… and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career and introduce … literature and correspondence remain the subject of scholarly inquiry. Her writing has been translated into more …
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