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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
… 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
… Willa Cather Center (NWCC): Please see attached PDF file. About the Willa Cather Foundation The Willa Cather …
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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation
… Image Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation January 23, 2019 After a … Site to the Willa Cather Foundation. Located in Red Cloud, Nebraska—where Cather spent her formative years—six … iconic writers. Tourists and scholars from around the world visit Red Cloud because of its associations with Willa …
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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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Robert and Ardis James Foundation Donates $250,000 for NWCC Endowment
… Image Robert and Ardis James Foundation Donates $250,000 for NWCC Endowment February 19, 2021 Literature enthusiasts … to the ongoing work of the Willa Cather Foundation’s Campaign for the Future . The Robert and Ardis James Foundation has made a …
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