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I Love A Prairie: Author Pam Houston Visits Red Cloud

… her time here. She and her husband stayed at the Villa Willa ("too short") in the Moonstone Block above the National Willa Cather, and took a guided tour with education coordinator, … Willa Cather Center is there," she wrote.  The Willa Cather Memorial Prairie was what initially lured them off the …
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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 … book. The retreat culminated in an evening picnic at the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie filled with laughter and great …
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MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner

… Her School to Antonette Willa Turner October 25, 2019 “You have a little Willa Cather right here in Bladen,” … 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 is always …
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Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center

… Image Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather … seminars, as well as arts and humanities events are held by the Foundation year-round in Red Cloud … 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

… to have cared for these important properties for the last forty years. The Willa Cather Foundation is an excellent … is especially beloved because of Cather’s preserved bedroom under the eaves where she did her first writing and where …
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Donor Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi

… Image Donor Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi October 21, 2020 Long-time supporters Nancy and Bernie Picchi … 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

… Foundation Donates $250,000 for NWCC Endowment February 19, 2021 Literature enthusiasts from across the country who … He has read all of the author’s books, but points to My Ántonia as a favorite. The National Willa Cather Center’s …
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Antonette Willa Skupa Turner: 1920-2021

… Image Antonette Willa Skupa Turner: 1920-2021 August 16, 2021 For many of us in the Cather … of Anna Sadilek Pavelka (Cather's prototype for Ántonia), Antonette provided us with a link to a connection … 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 … embellishments. The portfolio was shot in the fall of 2021 on Nebraska models at founder and designer Rachelle Hruska … 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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