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Music on the Prairie
… welcome to explore the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie and learn about recent restoration efforts. The 608-acre … Place-Based Identity: A creative-nonfiction workshop focused on connections between self and place With … Artist-in-residency June 2-5, 2011 The 4th annual Prairie Writers’ Workshop will provide participants with the rare …
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I Love A Prairie: Author Pam Houston Visits Red Cloud
… highway for a stay on the way home—"the prairie might be my favorite landscape of all," Houston said. She teaches … Houston also wrote the short story collection Cowboys Are My Weakness , and many other books published by W.W. Norton, … read (nearly) all of Willa Cather’s books, have taught My Ántonia , The Song of the Lark and Death Comes for the …
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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, … Visit www.WillaCather.org to learn more. More About the National Willa Cather Center (NWCC): Please see …
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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation
… Image Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather … In addition to overseeing a growing archive of Cather letters and photographs, the addition of the Willa Cather … she did her first writing and where the wallpaper that she selected and purchased still remains. The Ántonia Farmhouse …
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Donor Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi
… $50,000 that was issued as a challenge prior to this year’s Willa Cather Spring Conference. The goal was simple: match the … to aid in the restoration of the Willa Cather Historic Sites. A bibliophile and librarian, Nancy Picchi first …
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Robert and Ardis James Foundation Donates $250,000 for NWCC Endowment
… He has read all of the author’s books, but points to My Ántonia as a favorite. The National Willa Cather Center’s … the Pavelka Farmstead, a setting from the final scenes of My Ántonia , which is undergoing a full restoration to its …
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Antonette Willa Skupa Turner: 1920-2021
… of Anna Sadilek Pavelka (Cather's prototype for Ántonia), Antonette provided us with a link to a connection … she was a friend. Antonette passed away on Friday, August 13, at the age of 101. She was a blessing to have known, and … when you think about old times, won't you?" Cather wrote in My Ántonia . "And I guess everybody thinks about old times, …
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