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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor

… Special Events Thursday, Apr 27, 2023 | 7pm Discussion #1: My Ántonia As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts to …
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Meet Our New Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen

… Director of Education & Engagement: Rachel Olsen January 15, 2023 Rachel Olsen has been part of the Willa Cather … I wasn’t a harsh critic, either, she just wasn’t on my radar. In graduate school, my areas of interest were late … like, she’s messy, and that is what I love about her. If My Ántonia connects readers to the world of immigrant …
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Ongoing Historic Site Restoration & Campaign Updates

… Historic Site Restoration & Campaign Updates April 22, 2021 Thanks to your many generous contributions to our Campaign … was home to Anna Sadilek Pavelka, prototype for Cather's Ántonia. Restoration will make it available for guided tours … The original two-story section of the depot, constructed in 1897, is the building Cather was familiar with during her …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … p. 1  Staff p. 1  Museum News and Donors p. 1  Interesting Visitors p. 2  Nebraska Activities and Publications p. 2  … p. 1 Letter from the President p. 1  Cather Second Home Lodging p. 54 Willa Cather: Canyon, Rock & Mesa Country …
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Laura Bush Announces the Willa Cather Campaign for the Future

… Image Laura Bush Announces the Willa Cather Campaign for the Future January 14, 2020 Today, we … Foundation is now raising the funds needed to restore the sites and enhance the visitor experience for tourists from …
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Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published

… Fragments of Willa Cather's Lost Work Published January 10, 2012 Fragments from Willa Cather’s Lost Work Published for the … wrote prolifically; her later works include Alexander’s Bridge (1912), O Pioneers! (1913), My Ántonia (1918), and A …
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Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

… into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame March 21, 2011 Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall … 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

… Image Music on the Prairie May 16, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice to write … the land that Cather so vividly described in works such as My Ántonia and O Pioneers!. “Music on the Cather Prairie” …
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I Love A Prairie: Author Pam Houston Visits Red Cloud

… Love A Prairie: Author Pam Houston Visits Red Cloud August 11, 2021 In early August, author Pam Houston visited Red … highway for a stay on the way home—"the prairie might be my favorite landscape of all," Houston said. She teaches … 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

… Writers Group Makes Its Way to Red Cloud October 20, 2021 A group of longtime writers arrived in Red Cloud and the … Farmstead . In preparation for their visit, the group read My Ántonia . Education coordinator Rachel Olsen joined the …
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