Tour Schedule
Departure Schedule to be announced.
I will have coffee, orange juice, & fresh muffins as we travel to Red Cloud, NE.   
9:00-10:00 am  Church Service GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH with Bishop Joe G. Burnett, Episcopal Bishop of Nebraska.
10:10-10:15 am Presentation: Monograph "Aging and Dying" in Willa Cather's Fiction 
10:15-12:00 am  The Passing Show Panel  "Why do people read My Antonia?
Keynote Paper: Ann Romines, George Washington University
12:00-1:00 pm  Lunch—RED CLOUD HIGH SCHOOL GYM
Afternoon Options between 1:30 and 4:30:
1:30-4:30 pm   Country tour:  Emphasis on places important in My Antonia including the Pavelka Farm and Cloverton Cemetery, Barb Kudrna and Don Connors. Leaders  
2:00-3:30 pm  OPERA HOUSE PREMIERE of Adaptation of "A Singer's Romance" A Play with Opera based on Willa Cather's short story by the same name. Commissioned by the Cather Foundation, written and directed by James E. Ford, starring Ariel Bybee, Mezzo Soprano.
1:30-4:30 pm Three discussion groups will meet simultaneously during this time. Participants may choose two different sessions or move freely from one discussion group to another.

•Family and My Antonia. Ann Romines,
•Religion and My Antonia. Steve Shively,
•Immigration and My Antonia Joe Urgo,
5:00 p.m   Depart from Red Cloud.

         Willa Cather
            1873 - 1947 Pulitzer Prize winning author of:
• The Kingdom of Art, 1893-1896
• The World and the Parish, 1893-1902
• April Twilights, 1903
• The Troll Garden, 1905
• Alexander's Bridge, 1912
• Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912
• O Pioneers!, 1913
• The Song of the Lark, 1915
• My Antonia, 1918
• Youth and the Bright Medusa, 1920
• One of Ours, 1922
• A Lost Lady, 1923
• April Twilights, 1923
• The Professor's House, 1925
• My Mortal Enemy, 1926
• Death Comes for theArchbishop,1927
• Uncle Valentine and Other Stories
• Shadows on the Rock, 1931
• Obscure Destinies, 1932
• Lucy Gayheart, 1935
• Not Under Forty, 1936
• Sapphira and the Slave Girl, 1940
• The Old Beauty and Others, 1948
• Willa Cather on Writing, 1949
• Willa Cather in Europe, 1956
• Five Stores, 1956
• Early Stories