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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
… In fact, I have two Olivers with me, as I always bring a backup to each performance. How many typewriters do you own …
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Student Scholarships Awarded
… Student Scholarships Awarded June 20, 2022 The National Willa Cather Center is delighted to announce our 2022 recipients … pursuing a higher education degree. For more information about our scholarship funds, please contact education …
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Student and Educator Scholarships Awarded
… July 20, 2021 Student Scholarship Recipients The National Willa Cather Center is delighted to announce our 2021 recipients … pursuing a higher education degree. For more information about our scholarship funds, please contact education …
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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 … in their entirety: O Pioneers !, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia . These will be the 72nd, 73rd and 74th performances …
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Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”
… Image Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.” May 19, 2021 We recently … showing at the Red Cloud Opera House Gallery through June 30 and will be featured in our 66th annual Willa Cather … and her elegiac sense of life. The first work I read was My Ántonia and the line about the “. . . precious, …
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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 , delayed until the fall of that year due to …
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Couple Donates Beloved Allan Tubach Painting
… for several of her classic novels about prairie life. My favorites are My Ántonia and The Song of the Lark .” A few years ago, Ruth … contact Executive Director, Ashley Olson at (402) 746-2653 or by email at aolson@willacather.org …
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Volunteer Profiles: Don & Teri Theobald
… favorite Willa Cather novels? The Song of the Lark and My Antonia . If you were to tell someone who had never …
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