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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

… Image Image Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing March 27, 2022 As part of their “Nebraskaland” collection of … 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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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 … April prairie winds—and a rare sweltering day while in the Childhood Home attic—as he has moved around to different … New Orleans. As to place, I've typed in some extraordinary locations—Faulkner's Rowan Oak, a Sing Sing prison tower, a …
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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

… teacher Melissa Barry reports, “I am excited to bring my sophomores [to the NWCC]...I am really excited to get …
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Tim Youd: Retyping Willa Cather

… Apr 10, 2022 | 12am - Friday, Apr 29, 2022 | 12am National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE … the same make/model typewriter used by the author, and in a location related to the novel and/or author. When retyping, … Sites April 11 — Miner House porch: "Friends of Childhood," pp. 1-50 April 12 — Childhood Home  attic …
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Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”

… (or works) from your exhibit and why? I have two favorites: Song of the Lark and Golden Goddess . The former required considerable …
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Willa Cather in the Great "Spanish Flu" Pandemic

… the Sherwood family, is now in the National Cather Center Archives & Collections. My dear Carrie; It has been a long …
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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 …
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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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