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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 … with the rare opportunity to gain insight about nonfiction writing while visiting the prairie town that inspired …
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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
… 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
… world and legacy of Willa Cather, while our Collections & Archives at the National Willa Cather Center provide …
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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
… Image Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center March 25, … plans to build the National Willa Cather Center, a public museum, archive, and arts and cultural center. The facility, … 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
… 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
… L. Miner House, also known as the Harling House in Cather’s My Ántonia . With continued encouragement by Foundation …
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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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Antonette Willa Skupa Turner: 1920-2021
… 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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