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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… fifty miles deep into the Webster County countryside, and includes settings from Willa Cather's novels and childhood: … Education Director, Tracy Tucker, who shares her beautiful images and informative narration. Our longer version, with …
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Pavelka Farmstead

… the National Willa Cather Center, the Pavelka Farmstead was chosen as one of twelve Hidden Treasures in Nebraska …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… as Constanza from Mozart’s Abduction of the Seraglio A Visit with Sarah Arneson Red Cloud’s Very Own Operatic … on a Fulbright and then to Vienna, where she first read Willa Cather’s novel,  The Song of the Lark .  “That is when … younger audiences—or any first-time opera listener—to experience opera as an art form? I would recommend that they …
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Novels

Novels If you are an educator and would like to contribute a lesson plan or activity based on teaching Willa Cather in your classroom, please contact director of education and engagement Rachel Olsen, at rolsen@willacather.org .  As always, the Willa …
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Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America

… 2023 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT Image Cather at 150 Symphony Space, New York City • In Person & Livestreamed … One of Ours ,  O Pioneers! ,  The Song of the Lark , and  My Ántonia . This special evening of short fiction in …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor

… Discussion #3: The Professor's House As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to commemorate acclaimed … , and Bellow’s  There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction , also a  New   York Times  Editors’ Choice. His edition of the collected stories of Susan Sontag,  Debriefing , was published by …
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Willa Cather in Fine Books & Collections

… & Collections Feature Article in Summer 2023 issue August 1, 2023 Willa Cather, the National Willa Cather Center, and … some of her personal novels including O Pioneers! and My Ántonia . 'The land belongs to the future,' said one of the …
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Dane Church

… halo looked like a ring of cheese. Cather was furious. In 1927, a tornado destroyed the little church, and when Ondrak heard of the damage, he reportedly cried, "My Yesus! My Yesus! Blown all to hell!" The Dane Church and … Norwegian cemetery that refuses to bury Mr. Shimerda in  My Ántonia ; Francis Sadilek, the prototype for Mr. Shimerda, …
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2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees

… celebrated our 2023 recipients of the Norma Ross Walter, Ántonia, Antonette Willa Skupa Turner, and National Willa … up, Trinity Houchin (Minden High School).  This year’s Ántonia Scholarship winner is Campbell Collins (Collins … awarded through the Willa Cather Foundation since 1987 total more than $200,000 and have assisted more than …
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John William Boone & Cather

… Boone & Cather "for I shall be the first... " In Cather’s  My Ántonia , narrator Jim Burden encounters the ancient Roman … to render her Nebraska experiences in a new way. In a 1918 review for  The Dial ,  Randolph Bourne writes of  My …
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