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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday
… Image Talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, President, Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events Thursday, Nov … Fort Collins , CO 80526 United States LEARN MORE Join us for birthday cake and a free talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, … We are in the midst of the centenaries of these books and about to celebrate the sesquicentennial of Cather’s birth. …
Posted: 10/07/2023
Last Updated: 10/26/2023
Willa Cather Timeline
… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870 — … Cather visits Red Cloud. 1901 — Cather takes a job teaching high school students in Pittsburgh and moves into … Lady , Cather vows not to allow any more adaptations of her works. She later stipulates this in her will. 1935 — In the …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/09/2023
Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection
… Library from Glenda J. Pierce, member of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors, and Jeff Kirkpatrick; it will … open hours . This event if free of charge. Learn more about Willa Cather and Material Culture and artist Betty …
Posted: 09/27/2023
Last Updated: 10/06/2023
Announcing the Inaugural Cohort in the Willa Cather Residency for Writers
… Cather’s 150th birthday. “We were delighted by the enormous response and outstanding applications,” said Ashley … senior editor at Harper’s Magazine and her book of essays about women writers, A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women … received fellowships from MacDowell and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Kirsten …
Posted: 05/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023
Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… Image Image Benjamin Taylor Image Image "Chasing Bright Medusas" Special Events Thursday, Oct 19, 2023 | 7 - 8pm … sessions will be recorded and distributed soon after. ABOUT BENJAMIN TAYLOR Benjamin Taylor received a 2021 Award … and current trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and serves as president of the Edward F. Albee …
Posted: 04/24/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023
O Pioneers!
… Center A University of Nebraska-Lincoln Opera Opera House Friday, Oct 20, 2023 | 7 - 10pm the Red Cloud Opera … The Richard P. Kimmel & Laurine Kimmel Charitable Foundation. This event is also supported by the Nebraska … Coordinator Nick Powers at npowers@willacather.org about accessibility accommodations. …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 10/04/2023
Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience
… when she discovered Willa Cather. Her mother was a voracious reader, and My Ántonia was among the Cather books on her … all winter. I want them to feel that and not to just think about it as some out-there story. History doesn’t mean much … to make history come alive for people.” This work of the Foundation is of vital importance to Loomis, who allocated a …
Posted: 09/08/2023
Last Updated: 09/08/2023
Pavelka Farmstead
… 4 near Bladen. Restored and managed by the National Willa Cather Center, the Pavelka Farmstead was chosen as one of … My Ántonia at 100 (issue theme) — Willa Cather Review, Volume 60: No. 3, Winter 2018 New Scholarship on My Ántonia … Plains Quarterly , Spring 1994, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln From the National …
Posted: 12/05/2014
Last Updated: 09/08/2023
50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … eventually became the scholarly journal, Willa Cather Review ) and issues of the informational News from Cather …
Posted: 09/06/2023
Last Updated: 09/07/2023
“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years
… spanned from 1922-24 featuring different authors writing about 48 states. In 2003, John Leonard wrote in the Nation , … articles by a distinguished, skeptical and contentious group of writers–novelists, journalists, educators, … formative years—the only period when it can really lay a foundation for a thorough understanding of a foreign …
Posted: 09/05/2023
Last Updated: 09/06/2023