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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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MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner

… Her School to Antonette Willa Turner October 25, 2019 “You have a little Willa Cather right here in Bladen,” … 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

…  "We come and go, but the land is always here...” —O Pioneers! Here in Nebraska we are surrounded by wide open …
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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, … seminars, as well as arts and humanities events are held by the Foundation year-round in Red Cloud …
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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation January 23, 2019 After a several decades-long collaboration dedicated to … that she selected and purchased still remains. The Ántonia Farmhouse (the Pavelka Farmstead) , about 15 miles … 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

… 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

… about Willa Cather through school-assigned readings of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia . But, it wasn’t until later, as a …
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