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Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie
… 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 my novels have come from things that happened around Red … 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, … research center, classroom, expanded bookstore and art gallery, dressing rooms and backstage facilities for the Red …
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Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation
… Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation January 23, 2019 After a several decades-long collaboration dedicated … that she selected and purchased still remains. The Ántonia Farmhouse (the Pavelka Farmstead) , about 15 miles … Red Cloud. Anna Pavelka was the inspiration for the novel My Ántonia, published in 1918. Cather had visited the …
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Donor Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi
… exceeding its initial goal with contributions totaling $123,270 to aid in the restoration of the Willa Cather Historic … 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
… He has read all of the author’s books, but points to My Ántonia as a favorite. The National Willa Cather Center’s … the Pavelka Farmstead, a setting from the final scenes of My Ántonia , which is undergoing a full restoration to its …
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Antonette Willa Skupa Turner: 1920-2021
… of Anna Sadilek Pavelka (Cather's prototype for Ántonia), Antonette provided us with a link to a connection … she was a friend. Antonette passed away on Friday, August 13, at the age of 101. She was a blessing to have known, and … 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
… and designer Rachelle Hruska MacPherson’s grandparents’ home in Ceresco, Nebraska as well as on the Hruska Family Farm, in Ulysses, Nebraska. Recently, we asked Rachelle more … Plains, and Red Cloud, that you share with people who’ve never been here before? The more I travel, the more I come …
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Artist Tim Youd on Typing Willa Cather in Red Cloud
… 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 . … to Alfred A. Knopf and Blanche Wolf Knopf, May 16, 1923: “The Oliver typewriter which Mr. Samuel Knopf ordered …
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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 … at rolsen@willacather.org . Application information for 2023 is available on our Scholarships page and annual deadlines …
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Student and Educator Scholarships Awarded
… to announce our 2021 recipients of the Norma Ross Walter, Ántonia, Antonette Willa Skupa Turner, and the Leslie A. and … at www.willacather.org and annual deadlines are January 31, February 28, and April 20. Educator Scholarship … teacher Melissa Barry reports, “I am excited to bring my sophomores [to the NWCC]...I am really excited to get …
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