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Suicide Grave
… suicide grave in My Antonia was described by Willa Cather as a little island of tall red grass. Francis … under and under until it had almost disappeared from the prairie; when all the fields were under fence, and the roads no longer ran about like wild things, but followed the surveyed …
Posted: 12/05/2014
Last Updated: 02/05/2018
Free Events happening at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference
… at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference May 24, 2017 The Willa Cather Foundation hosts their 62nd annual Spring Conference June 1 …
Posted: 05/24/2017
Last Updated: 07/25/2017
WoW Celebrates Anniversary of The Song of the Lark
… Cloud Opera House, 413 North Webster Street. The exhibit includes visual art in many mediums and a selection of work … novel. Though its libretto at every point draws on Cather's text, it adapts the words of her novel freely and creatively … Armstrong at aarmstrong@willacather.org or at 402-746-2653. About the Performers Michelle Dean (soprano) is currently a …
Posted: 07/14/2015
Last Updated: 08/14/2015
Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012
… May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium … have long noted her sharp presentation of herself as prairie poet with "Prairie Spring" at the beginning of her … prose is "poetic," very few readers have had much to say about Cather's own poetry. In 1962 scholar Bernice Slote …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 02/16/2015
Writer's Workshop: May 17-20, 2012
… Workshop: May 17-20, 2012 October 26, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of the … from a professional writer, the workshop incorporates tours of seven local historic sites relating to Cather's … Friday, May 18 9:30 & 11:00 a.m. or 1:30 & 3:00 p.m. Town tour of Cather historic sites 6:00-9:00 p.m. Writing …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 02/16/2015
2013 Spring Conference
… while." These words ring as true today as they did the day Cather penned them, 100 years ago. Our spring conference will celebrate the centennial of Cather's breakthrough novel O Pioneers! in which she "hit … this year. Rowdy string-band MAW will entertain in the Opera House, and award-winning cowboy poet, storyteller, and …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 02/16/2015
Turn the Page Literary Tour
… Image Turn the Page Literary Tour July 3, 2013 The Willa Cather State Historic …
Posted: 09/11/2014
Last Updated: 09/11/2014
Showing at The Lark
… at The Lark and The Willa Cather Foundation's Red Cloud Opera House . About the organizations: The Willa Cather Foundation … as well as a variety of community and family meetings and events. The Lark is located at 809 West 2nd Street in …
Posted: 09/11/2014
Last Updated: 09/11/2014
2014 Spring Conference Highlights
… opened Thursday with a day of scholarly presentations on Cather, her contemporaries, and the literary environment. We welcomed topics on not only Cather’s prairie landscape, but her urban and eastern … scholarship winners and their families to the Red Cloud Opera House, where the winners read their papers, fielded …
Posted: 09/09/2014
Last Updated: 09/11/2014