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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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Tim Youd: Retyping Willa Cather

… | 12am National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States The National Willa Cather … the same make/model typewriter used by the author, and in a location related to the novel and/or author. When retyping, …
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Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.”

… Image Artist Karen Vierneisel: “I must find my own way and trust my own eye.” May 19, 2021 We recently spoke with Chicago-based artist, Karen … and her elegiac sense of life. The first work I read was My Ántonia and the line about the “. . . precious, …
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Willa Cather in the Great "Spanish Flu" Pandemic

… Willa Cather in the Great "Spanish Flu" Pandemic March 31, 2020 1918 was a pivotal year for Willa Cather and the world. She would publish My Ántonia , delayed until the fall of that year due to …
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Couple Donates Beloved Allan Tubach Painting

… Image Couple Donates Beloved Allan Tubach Painting December 16, 2020 A recent gift of the painting Willa’s Windows , by … for several of her classic novels about prairie life. My favorites are My Ántonia and The Song of the Lark .” A few years ago, Ruth …
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Volunteer Profiles: Don & Teri Theobald

… favorite Willa Cather novels? The Song of the Lark and  My Antonia .   If you were to tell someone who had never …
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Newly Conserved Artwork Returns

… Image Image Newly Conserved Artwork Returns October 21, 2020 Through the generosity of several of our longtime … original W.T. Benda illustration for Willa Cather’s novel My Ántonia , lovingly presented to a friend. The inscription, …
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J.L. Miner House

… Image J.L. Miner House Built in 1878, the Miner house is one of the finest historic homes in … wrote to Carrie regularly throughout her life, and her book My Ántonia is dedicated "To Carrie and Irene Miner, In memory …
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Students Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely!

… Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely! June 25, 2020 Despite … be entirely remote while still giving each intern valuable museum work experience. Our two interns this summer are Alise … work, and we thought it would be fun to share a little bit about them. Alise Perault is a Preservation Studies graduate …
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Educator & Student Opportunities this Spring

… Image Educator & Student Opportunities this Spring February 18, 2020 Spring is a perfect time to bring students to … sites both in town and in the country. Students reading My Ántonia or learning about Nebraska history will benefit from …
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