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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

… Image Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center March 25, … seminars, as well as arts and humanities events are held by the Foundation year-round in Red Cloud …
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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation

… Image Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather … National Willa Cather Center will remain a primary location to learn about and research one of America's most … Places and open for guided tours regularly: Willa Cather’s Childhood Home , a National Historic Landmark, was the …
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Donor Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi

… $50,000 that was issued as a challenge prior to this year’s Willa Cather Spring Conference. The goal was simple: match the … for future generations to experience and enjoy." To donate to our Campaign for the Future, click HERE . Please …
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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

… 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

… to announce our 2022 recipients of the Norma Ross Walter, Ántonia, Antonette Willa Skupa Turner, and the Leslie A. and … place, Megan Ruwe (Millard North High School) This year’s Ántonia Scholarship winner is:   Chloe Berger (Berger … awarded through the Willa Cather Foundation since 1987 total more than $190,000 and have assisted more than 75 …
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Student and Educator Scholarships Awarded

… Student and Educator Scholarships Awarded July 20, 2021 Student Scholarship Recipients The National Willa Cather … to announce our 2021 recipients of the Norma Ross Walter, Ántonia, Antonette Willa Skupa Turner, and the Leslie A. and … teacher Melissa Barry reports, “I am excited to bring my sophomores [to the NWCC]...I am really excited to get …
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