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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

… in March 2011. In the Fall 2011 issue of the Willa Cather Newsletter & Review, the Willa Cather Foundation published … Director of the Foundation. The Fall 2011 issue of the Newsletter & Review, which also features an essay on the …
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Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

… Seminars, Elderhostels, Prairie Writers’ Workshops, and Newsletter & Review exemplify the WCF’s commitment to …
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Music on the Prairie

… Image Music on the Prairie May 16, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write … the land that Cather so vividly described in works such as My Ántonia and O Pioneers!. “Music on the Cather Prairie” …
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I Love A Prairie: Author Pam Houston Visits Red Cloud

… "relied on her for the courage" to write her 2019 memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country  [W.W. Norton]. Houston …
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Writers Group Makes Its Way to Red Cloud

… Writers Group Makes Its Way to Red Cloud October 20, 2021 A group of longtime writers arrived in Red Cloud and the … Farmstead . In preparation for their visit, the group read My Ántonia . Education coordinator Rachel Olsen joined the …
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MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner

… Her School to Antonette Willa Turner October 25, 2019 “You have a little Willa Cather right here in Bladen,” … from the National Willa Cather Center donated copies of My Ántonia and Willa: The Story of Willa Cather, an American …
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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 … our heads making slow shadows on the grass. . . ." —My Ántonia For more about the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, …
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Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center

… Image Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center March 25, 2014 WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION TO … in her stories, and artwork inspired by her vision of the prairie. For scholars, it will be a chance to …
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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… be transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation on January 24, 2019. The properties were given to the State of Nebraska … that she selected and purchased still remains. The Ántonia Farmhouse (the Pavelka Farmstead) , about 15 miles … Red Cloud. Anna Pavelka was the inspiration for the novel  My Ántonia,  published in 1918. Cather had visited the …
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