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MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner

… 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

… Pollinator Week on the Prairie June 15, 2022 Visit the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie  "We come and go, but the land … strangeness,’ of saturating color and light. When you walk the Cather Prairie, you move not only backward in time … Cather’s Prairie ,” The New Yorker We encourage you to take guided tours that depart from the National Willa Cather …
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Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center

… Cloud and internationally. Visit www.WillaCather.org to learn more. More About the National Willa Cather Center … Foundation offers:  Town tour: Visitors can explore and learn about the buildings and sites related to the life …
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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… Willa Cather Center will remain a primary location to learn about and research one of America's most iconic …
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Donor Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi

… exceeding its initial goal with contributions totaling $123,270 to aid in the restoration of the Willa Cather Historic … 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

… He has read all of the author’s books, but points to My Ántonia as a favorite. The National Willa Cather Center’s … the Pavelka Farmstead, a setting from the final scenes of My Ántonia , which is undergoing a full restoration to its …
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Antonette Willa Skupa Turner: 1920-2021

… of Anna Sadilek Pavelka (Cather's prototype for Ántonia), Antonette provided us with a link to a connection … she was a friend. Antonette passed away on Friday, August 13, at the age of 101. She was a blessing to have known, and … 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

… aims to memorialize the writer's prose, while conjuring the mystic beauty of Nebraska’s prairies with hand-stitched … Cather through school-assigned readings of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia . But, it wasn’t until later, as a New Yorker, that …
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Artist Tim Youd on Typing Willa Cather in Red Cloud

… Image Artist Tim Youd on Typing Willa Cather in Red Cloud April 29, 2022 Los Angeles-based artist … typing The Song of the Lark in Red Cloud as part of his 100 Novels Project , every day since he arrived in town on April … it a good fit. And when I decided I would retype the three early frontier novels—one in Lincoln, one in Red Cloud, and …
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Student Scholarships Awarded

… to announce our 2022 recipients of the Norma Ross Walter, Ántonia, Antonette Willa Skupa Turner, and the Leslie A. and … place, Megan Ruwe (Millard North High School) This year’s Ántonia Scholarship winner is:   Chloe Berger (Berger … at rolsen@willacather.org . Application information for 2023 is available on our Scholarships page and annual deadlines …
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