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Donor Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi

… L. Miner House, also known as the Harling House in Cather’s My Ántonia . With continued encouragement by Foundation …
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Robert and Ardis James Foundation Donates $250,000 for NWCC Endowment

… 19, 2021 Literature enthusiasts from across the country who visit the National Willa Cather Center can look forward to new experiences—in Cather’s hometown of Red Cloud and virtually—thanks to the ongoing work of the Willa …
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Antonette Willa Skupa Turner: 1920-2021

… co-authored with the National Willa Cather Center archivist Tracy Tucker. "We have discovered that she is much more than that. …
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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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Artist Tim Youd on Typing Willa Cather in Red Cloud

… House ( where Tim is also staying during his three-week residency ). The platform at the Burlington Depot was cold …
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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 of the Norma Ross Walter, Ántonia, Antonette Willa Skupa Turner, and the Leslie A. and Helen R. Wilson scholarships. Scholars not in …
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Student and Educator Scholarships Awarded

… recorded a video reading of their winning essays to be shared virtually at our 66th annual Spring Conference, and they … , Blue Hill High School Norma Ross Walter was a frequent visitor to Red Cloud and lifelong Cather fan. The scholarship established …
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Tim Youd: Retyping Willa Cather

… 2022 | 12am - Friday, Apr 29, 2022 | 12am National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 … three weeks in April. Represented by the Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York, Youd will also be performing at Joslyn … Faces," pp. 289-314 April 22 — Willa Cather Memorial Prairie (Miner House if inclement ): "Stupid Faces," pp. …
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Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”

… my head over my heart. I began work on a PhD in English Literature at the University of Chicago. Early on, I found … The struggle of artists. Have you been to Nebraska or the Great Plains before? I was last in Red Cloud and Lincoln in August …
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Willa Cather in the Great "Spanish Flu" Pandemic

… year for Willa Cather and the world. She would publish My Ántonia , delayed until the fall of that year due to … now in the National Cather Center Archives & Collections. My dear Carrie; It has been a long while since I received … living more. The fuel shortage was inconvenient for me. My study is heated by a coal grate, and during the terribly …
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