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Laura Bush Announces the Willa Cather Campaign for the Future

… properties, expand educational programming, develop visitor amenities, and build endowment for the nonprofit … since 1978, but History Nebraska and the Foundation had operated the site together since 1994. It is the largest … you can walk right into Willa Cather’s world. There’s the house she lived in, the bank, the opera house, the railroad …
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Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… Cather’s Lost Work Published for the First Time At her death in 1947, famed author Willa Cather was working on a … The Professor’s House (1925), My Mortal Enemy (1926), Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), Shadows on the Rock (1931), Lucy Gayheart …
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Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

… which she won the Pulitzer Prize, is World War I France; Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) is set in the nineteenth-century American …
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Music on the Prairie

… Image Music on the Prairie May 16, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write about the part of … to explore the land that Cather so vividly described in works such as My Ántonia and O Pioneers!. “Music on the … Sequel, Heritage of the Great Plains, and Eureka Studies Teaching Short Fiction. Her memoir, All Skate, Now Reverse, …
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I Love A Prairie: Author Pam Houston Visits Red Cloud

… Block above the National Willa Cather, and took a guided tour with education coordinator, Rachel Olsen. "I'm really … initially lured them off the highway for a stay on the way home—"the prairie might be my favorite landscape of all," … on the spot to get a job. I loved seeing the Willa Cather Childhood Home where Cather grew up, and loved seeing 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 … country then, on foot, on horseback and in our farm wagons. My nose went poking into nearly everything.” The prairie …
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Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center

… dressing rooms and backstage facilities for the Red Cloud Opera House, street-level retail space, and three residences to house visitors. The Center will occupy Red Cloud’s historic “Moon …
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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 several decades-long … Willa Cather Center will remain a primary location to learn about and research one of America's most iconic writers. …
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