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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 … acclaimed novels One of Ours , O Pioneers! , The Song of the Lark , and My Ántonia . This special evening of short …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… #3: The Professor's House Special Events Thursday, Sep 21, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Discussion #3: The … for this series. We will read: April 27, at 7:00 pm CT: My Ántonia June 1, at 12:30 pm CT: A Lost Lady September 21, …
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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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The Collections at National Willa Cather Center
… Annotations from the Archive: Cather in Santa Fe Image A 1909 Omaha Bee advertisement for Apollinaris Water Image Steriopticon Image Original illustration from My Ántonia The Collections at National Willa Cather Center The …
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Press Room
… cpond@WillaCather.org The National Willa Cather Center 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud, NE 68970 … in Cather's work—in particular O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), My Ántonia (1918), One of Ours (1922), A …
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Organization History
… early years. In the early 1950s, Bennett gathered a small group of Red Cloud citizens, interested individuals, … Cather, great woman, great literary artist, who once was one of ours and now belongs to the great world and to time, … Sites and the collection became known as the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Collection. The Foundation later assumed …
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Event Archives
Event Archives Keywords Type - Any - Art Gallery Author Series International Seminar Opera House Prairie Writers Special Events Spring Conference Image Exhibit Preview & Open House at the Burlington Special Events: Friday, May 22, 2026 | 3 - 5pm Saturday, …
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