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Welcome, New Board Members!
… New Board Members! December 11, 2015 We at the Willa Cather Foundation are proud to work with a board that … and president and board member of the Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center. Her hobbies are reading, history, … fashion and reading. In addition to her role on the Willa Cather Foundation board of governors, she sits on the …
Posted: 12/11/2015
Last Updated: 02/23/2016
WoW Celebrates Anniversary of The Song of the Lark
… WoW Celebrates Anniversary of The Song of the Lark July 14, 2015 The Willa Cather Foundation is celebrating the 100th anniversary … August 15, beginning with cocktails at 5:00 p.m. in the Art Gallery followed by a dinner and performance at 6:30 pm in …
Posted: 07/14/2015
Last Updated: 08/14/2015
Jorn Olsen Photography
… to the vivid colors of an autumn sunset over the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, Olsen creates magnificent images of Nebraska’s … May 2 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. prior to a production of Catherland:The Musical at the Red Cloud Opera House. …
Posted: 01/29/2015
Last Updated: 03/18/2015
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 preceding it will be focused on Cather the poet, on poetry, and on today's poets from the … have long noted her sharp presentation of herself as prairie poet with "Prairie Spring" at the beginning of her …
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 … she knew best, she turned for inspiration to the Nebraska prairie that affected her youth. Each year, the Willa Cather Foundation is pleased to host a Prairie Writers' …
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 … The novel celebrates the transformation of the American prairies by European settlers and marks Cather's emergence …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 02/16/2015
Catherton Cemetery
… Image Catherton Cemetery Originally, George Cathers's two sisters, Jennie (see "Macon Prairie") and Alverna, both of whom died of tuberculosis, …
Posted: 12/05/2014
Last Updated: 01/29/2015
Small Town Big Dreams
… that sloped down to the highroad." -- My Ántonia by Willa Cather The Hastings/Adams County Convention and Visitors … , Webster County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Willa Cather Foundation, and the Starke Round Barn have combined … the Red Cloud Opera House, viewing the stars on the Cather Prairie and the J.M. McDonald Planetarium, going back in …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 09/23/2014
Spring Conference Call for Papers
… Spring Conference Call for Papers December 5, 2011 Willa Cather, Poet: Making Herself Born 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 …
Posted: 09/15/2014
Last Updated: 09/18/2014
Turn the Page Literary Tour
… a grand-prize drawing (held in October) for an Apple® iPad® mini valued at approximately $600. An additional drawing for …
Posted: 09/11/2014
Last Updated: 09/11/2014