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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

… Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie June 15, 2022 Visit the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie  "We come … 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 … over our heads making slow shadows on the grass. . . ." —My Ántonia For more about the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie, …
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Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center

… to Create National Willa Cather Center March 25, 2014 WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION TO CREATE NATIONAL WILLA CATHER … Cather’s most moving scenes, such as the suicide grave from My Ántonia and the beautiful Divide.  Gallery and bookstore: …
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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

… 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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Artist Tim Youd on Typing Willa Cather in Red Cloud

… typing The Song of the Lark in Red Cloud as part of his 100 Novels Project , every day since he arrived in town on … the 100 Novels Project ? I've been a devoted reader my entire life. Sometimes I've read for inspiration, … observe  Tim Youd  in Omaha's Old Market as he retypes My Ántonia in May, in partnership with the  Joslyn Art Museum . …
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Student Scholarships Awarded

… Student Scholarships Awarded June 20, 2022 The National Willa Cather … by her ample bequest supports young women seeking higher education. Antonette Turner generously established both the … assists Webster County students pursuing secondary education or agricultural degrees. Scholarships awarded …
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