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Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… purchased from Cather Books & Gifts by calling 402-746-2653 or online at www.WillaCather.org. Willa Cather has been … 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

… accept the honor on behalf of Ms. Cather. Willa Cather (1873-1947) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author who … 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” … at the Red Cloud Opera House on Sunday, June 5, at 3 p.m. Glover will read from her collection, and writers …
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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

… 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

… 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 … over 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, … seminars, as well as arts and humanities events are held by the Foundation year-round in Red Cloud …
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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation January 23, 2019 After a several decades-long collaboration dedicated … 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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Donor Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi

… exceeding its initial goal with contributions totaling $123,270 to aid in the restoration of the Willa Cather Historic … L. Miner House, also known as the Harling House in Cather’s My Ántonia . With continued encouragement by Foundation staff, …
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