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Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud
Image Road Scholars Visit Red Cloud October 25, 2019 In early October 2019, sixteen Road Scholars spent an immersive five days engaged in a special program planned through the National Willa Cather Center. With a well-planned itinerary offered through the …
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Cather Second Home Guest House
Image Cather Second Home Guest House At the corner of Sixth and Seward stands the Cather family’s second home. They lived here from 1904 until the death of Cather’s parents (father in 1928, mother in 1931). Willa Cather's parents purchased this home in …
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Call for Applications: Research Grants for Willa Cather Scholarship
Call for Applications: Research Grants for Willa Cather Scholarship October 2, 2019 The Cather Project of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) English Department, in cooperation with the Cather Archive of the UNL Libraries and the National Willa …
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Request for Proposals: Willa Cather Book Illustration
… be accepted. Proposal Due: November 30, 2019 Contacts : Tracy Tucker, Education Director — ttucker@willacather.org Ashley Olson, Executive Director — …
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Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner
… history, and Karr recognized this after reading a copy of My Ántonia given to her by her own grandmother. “I loved …
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Rarely Seen Willa Cather Postcard on Exhibit
Image Rarely Seen Willa Cather Postcard on Exhibit September 25, 2019 In the recent transfer of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial collection, we were happy to run across this postcard of Willa Cather to Charles Moore. Written during her first trip to …
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Now Booking School and Group Tours For the Fall
… any size. Is your high school class writing an essay about My Ántonia ? If so, our 7-Building Tour throughout the town …
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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains
… nodding in time to his bites as he ate down toward them.” — My Ántonia When Jim Burden recalls the legend of “the sunflower-bordered roads to freedom” in My Ántonia , he remembers the story of Mormon settlers, … an early account, and it's from these depictions that the myth of Western settlers using the colorful blooms as trail …
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Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020
… Image Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020 August 28, 2019 As a young college … of one scholarship, who will study agriculture or secondary education. Each scholarship requires an essay, and all of … " page on our website. You can also contact our Education Specialist Rachel Olsen at rolsen@willacather.org …
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Sites Manager Position Open
… Sites Manager Position Open July 23, 2019 The Willa Cather … skilled, and multi-talented candidate to fill a new Sites Manager position. The Sites Manager will ensure the short- and long-term maintenance, …
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