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I Love A Prairie: Author Pam Houston Visits Red Cloud

… highway for a stay on the way home—"the prairie might be my favorite landscape of all," Houston said. She teaches … Houston also wrote the short story collection  Cowboys Are My Weakness , and many other books published by W.W. Norton, … Nebraska ,' to learn of the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. My husband and I were driving back to Colorado from …
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Writers Group Makes Its Way to Red Cloud

… Journey of Thirteen Bereaved Mothers took in all that Cather country has to offer, including tours , a weeklong stay at our historic lodging properties , … Julie Hester characterized Red Cloud as a “Scrappy town on the prairie/carved out of sod and bittersweet.” We’d …
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MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner

… she said. As part of its mission, the Willa Cather Foundation helps support K-12 educational initiatives by providing books, …
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Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie

… and friends and to “get out among the folk who like me for myself,” as she said in a 1921 interview. "The ideas for all my novels have come from things that happened around Red … country then, on foot, on horseback and in our farm wagons. My nose went poking into nearly everything.” The prairie …
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Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center

… Cather’s most moving scenes, such as the suicide grave from My Ántonia and the beautiful Divide.  Gallery and …
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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… Image Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather … In addition to overseeing a growing archive of Cather letters and photographs, the addition of the Willa Cather … she did her first writing and where the wallpaper that she selected and purchased still remains. The Ántonia Farmhouse …
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Donor Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi

… Nancy and Bernie Picchi recently made a major gift to our Campaign for the Future   with a generous pledge of $50,000 that was issued …
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Robert and Ardis James Foundation Donates $250,000 for NWCC Endowment

… Image Robert and Ardis James Foundation Donates $250,000 for NWCC Endowment February 19, 2021 Literature enthusiasts … to the ongoing work of the Willa Cather Foundation’s Campaign for the Future . The Robert and Ardis James Foundation has made a …
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Antonette Willa Skupa Turner: 1920-2021

… 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, … Cather’s work and the impact it had on the world outside of my home state. The more I’ve gotten to know Willa Cather, …
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