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Donor Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi

… Image Donor Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi October 21, 2020 Long-time supporters Nancy and Bernie Picchi … 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

… Foundation Donates $250,000 for NWCC Endowment February 19, 2021 Literature enthusiasts from across the country who … He has read all of the author’s books, but points to My Ántonia as a favorite. The National Willa Cather Center’s …
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Antonette Willa Skupa Turner: 1920-2021

… Image Antonette Willa Skupa Turner: 1920-2021 August 16, 2021 For many of us in the Cather … of Anna Sadilek Pavelka (Cather's prototype for Ántonia), Antonette provided us with a link to a connection … 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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Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing

… Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing March 27, 2022 As part of their “Nebraskaland” …
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Artist Tim Youd on Typing Willa Cather in Red Cloud

… 2022 Los Angeles-based artist Tim Youd has been typing The Song of the Lark in Red Cloud as part of his 100 Novels Project , every … to Alfred A. Knopf and Blanche Wolf Knopf, May 16, 1923: “The Oliver typewriter which Mr. Samuel Knopf ordered …
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Student Scholarships Awarded

… our scholarship funds, please contact education coordinator Rachel Olsen at rolsen@willacather.org . Application information for 2023 is …
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Student and Educator Scholarships Awarded

… our scholarship funds, please contact education coordinator Rachel Olsen at rolsen@willacather.org . Application information … apply! For more information, contact education coordinator Rachel Olsen at rolsen@willacather.org . …
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Tim Youd: Retyping Willa Cather

… Friday, Apr 29, 2022 | 12am National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States The … three Cather novels in their entirety: O Pioneers !, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia . These will be the 72nd, 73rd and 74th …
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Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”

… and Shadow — Paintings Inspired by the Art and Life of Willa Cather is showing at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery through June 30 and will be featured in our 66th …
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Willa Cather in the Great "Spanish Flu" Pandemic

… Image Willa Cather in the Great "Spanish Flu" Pandemic March 31, 2020 1918 was a pivotal year for Willa Cather and the world. She would publish My Ántonia , … World War 1 diary, a serendipitous event for Cathe'rs writing.) In this letter, written on March 13 to her dear …
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