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Free Events happening at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference
… Image Free Events happening at the 62nd Annual Spring Conference May … Glass will speak at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, in the Red Cloud Opera House auditorium. Musician Dave Seay will perform “Train …
Posted: 05/24/2017
Last Updated: 07/25/2017
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
… Anniversary of The Song of the Lark July 14, 2015 The Willa Cather Foundation is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark with a series of special … a picnic and night sky viewing on the 612-acre Cather Prairie, guided tours of the Cather historic sites, an art …
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
… Image Spring Conference: 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 … Spring" at the beginning of her "real" first novel, O Pioneers! , yet her actual first book, April Twilights …
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
… (to whom Cather dedicated the the novel), and Cather's letters, a selected volume of which is being published this year. Rowdy … will serve dinner on the Cather Prairie. 58th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference "Fortunate Country": O …
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
… Small Town Big Dreams March 3, 2010 "On my way East I broke …
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