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Seeking Volunteers & Part-time Staff
… Seeking Volunteers & Part-time Staff March 2, 2017 That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.” – My Ántonia Over 8,000 visitors from forty states and five …
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National Willa Cather Center to Offer New Opportunities
… exciting opportunities to engage with Cather and her work. Our rich and varied collection of archive and museum pieces … asked recently what excites her most about the project, Executive Director Ashley Olson noted, “Everything. It’s … to enhancing our ability to deliver programming and meet our mission.” She continues, “Visitors and students …
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Pavelka Farm Served as 4th Tourism Serves Site
… Farm Served as 4th Tourism Serves Site December 20, 2016 Nebraska Tourism’s fourth Nebraska Tourism Serves project … provided part of the setting for Cather's beloved novel, My Ántonia . Over forty volunteers that assisted with the …
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Pavelka Farmstead Selected As Tourism Serves Site
… Farmstead Selected As Tourism Serves Site October 20, 2016 Nebraska Tourism’s fourth Nebraska Tourism Serves project … provided part of the setting for Cather's beloved novel, My Ántonia . Those assisting with the cleanup will do a number …
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2016 Scholarship Recipients
… Image 2016 Scholarship Recipients June 29, 2016 A springtime tradition, the Willa Cather Foundation is … honors Pavelka, the prototype and inspiration for Ántonia Shimerda Cuzak, the eponymous character in Cather’s …
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New Items Join our Collection
… Image Image Image New Items Join our Collection August 1, 2012 When Jim and Angela Southwick came to Red Cloud for … collection are four of the original Benda illustrations to My Ántonia . These illustrations join two additional Benda …
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New NET Production 'Yours, Willa Cather' Spans, Radio, TV, & Digital
… Image New NET Production 'Yours, Willa Cather' Spans, Radio, TV, & Digital September 9, 2015 … Sept. 5 and runs through Sunday, Sept. 27 with essays about correspondence to Louise Pound, Sarah Orne Jewett, F. …
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61st Annual Spring Conference Call for Papers
… Image 61st Annual Spring Conference Call for Papers September 8, … her novels written during WWI— The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia — and through her letters, her essays “Roll Call on …
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Albertinis Become Charter Members of Legacy Society
… Become Charter Members of Legacy Society July 23, 2015 Dr. Virgil Albertini and his wife Dolores first visited … one of the annual gatherings since that time. “I first read My Ántonia as a sophomore in high school, and Cather has been …
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2015 Scholarships Awarded
… Image 2015 Scholarships Awarded July 2, 2015 On June 5, the Willa … School. Educator Scholarship recipients were Brother Jeremy Dominc of Necedah, Wisconsin, who teaches junior high and … Shimerda Cuzak, the major character in Cather’s novel My Ántonia . The scholarship winners and the Willa Cather …
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