Search Results

216 results found

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 … country then, on foot, on horseback and in our farm wagons. My nose went poking into nearly everything.” The prairie …
Posted:
Last Updated:

Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center

… Cather’s most moving scenes, such as the suicide grave from My Ántonia and the beautiful Divide.  Gallery and …
Posted:
Last Updated:

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 …
Posted:
Last Updated:

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 …
Posted:
Last Updated:

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 …
Posted:
Last Updated:

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, …
Posted:
Last Updated:

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 … Cather through school-assigned readings of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia . But, it wasn’t until later, as a New Yorker, … Cather’s work and the impact it had on the world outside of my home state. The more I’ve gotten to know Willa Cather, …
Posted:
Last Updated:

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, … sometimes for escape. When I was able to connect my visual art-making to my ongoing habit of reading, not only my art but my life in …
Posted:
Last Updated:

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 …
Posted:
Last Updated:

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 …
Posted:
Last Updated: