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Ongoing Historic Site Restoration & Campaign Updates

… please contact Ashley Olson, Executive Director, at 402-746-2653 or aolson@willacather.org . Link  HERE  for more … was home to Anna Sadilek Pavelka, prototype for Cather's Ántonia. Restoration will make it available for guided tours …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Miriam Mountford  Title: Prototypes of Characters in My Ántonia Recognized at Spring Banquet  AUTHOR: Victor P. Hass … 1970 to Volume 23, Number 4, Makeup edition Fall 1979 Ãcoma Plateau Pueblo, 18.2:3 Adams, Maude: Cather on, 16.3:3 …
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Laura Bush Announces the Willa Cather Campaign for the Future

… Announces the Willa Cather Campaign for the Future January 14, 2020 Today, we announce the Willa Cather Foundation's … house, the railroad depot, and the landscape. It’s one of my favorite places in all of America.” The Campaign for the … which is central to Cather’s most celebrated novel, My Ántonia. Adding to the success of the campaign is a Save …
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Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… Lost Work Published for the First Time At her death in 1947, famed author Willa Cather was working on a story -- or … include Alexander’s Bridge (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), and A Lost Lady (1923), all of which …
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Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

… the honor on behalf of Ms. Cather. Willa Cather (1873-1947) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who first … national recognition for novels such as O Pioneers! and My Ántonia, in which she drew on her own experiences of growing …
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Music on the Prairie

… the land that Cather so vividly described in works such as My Ántonia and O Pioneers!. “Music on the Cather Prairie” … weather. Tickets are $10 and are available by calling 402.746.2641 or online at www.WillaCather.org. Place-Based …
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I Love A Prairie: Author Pam Houston Visits Red Cloud

… Cather, and took a guided tour with education coordinator, Rachel Olsen. "I'm really happy to know that the Willa Cather …
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Writers Group Makes Its Way to Red Cloud

… visit, the group read My Ántonia . Education coordinator Rachel Olsen joined the writers at the Cather Second Home to lead a … your writing group! Please contact education coordinator Rachel Olsen at rolsen@willacather.org . …
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MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner

… Education Director Tracy Tucker, and Education Specialist Rachel Olsen. This event came about from Karr’s summer 4-H project, … Tracy Tucker, Education Director: ttucker@willacather.org Rachel Olsen, Education Specialist: rolsen@willacather.org …
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Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie

… and friends and to “get out among the folk who like me for myself,” as she said in a 1921 interview. "The ideas for all my novels have come from things that happened around Red … over our heads making slow shadows on the grass. . . ." —My Ántonia For more about the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, …
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