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Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

… national recognition for novels such as O Pioneers! and My Ántonia, in which she drew on her own experiences of …
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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 the world she knew best, she turned for …
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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, … Nebraska ,' to learn of the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. My husband and I were driving back to Colorado from …
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Writers Group Makes Its Way to Red Cloud

… Journey of Thirteen Bereaved Mothers took in all that Cather country has to offer, including tours , a weeklong stay at our historic lodging properties , … Julie Hester characterized Red Cloud as a “Scrappy town on the prairie/carved out of sod and bittersweet.” We’d …
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MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner

… Image MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner October 25, 2019 “You have a little Willa Cather right here in Bladen,” Antonette Turner told a … grandparents Henry and Jane Tonjes, as well as the National Willa Cather Center’s Executive Director Ashley Olson, …
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Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie

… Image Image Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie June 15, 2022 Visit the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie  "We come and go, but the land is … the other people and the other places I had been writing about. I loved the country where I had been a kid, where …
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Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center

… Image Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center … in her stories, and artwork inspired by her vision of the prairie. For scholars, it will be a chance to … 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 Foundation January 23, 2019 After a several … can uncover more about her life and work through site tours, exhibits, and research right here in Red Cloud.” The …
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Donor Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi

… Nancy and Bernie Picchi recently made a major gift to our Campaign for the Future   with a generous pledge of $50,000 that was issued …
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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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