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Educator & Student Opportunities this Spring

… sites both in town and in the country. Students reading My Ántonia or learning about Nebraska history will benefit from … Rachel Olsen at rolsen@willacather.org or 402-746-2653. …
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Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators

… Nebraska’s foremost citizen and author of O Pioneers! , My Ántonia & Death Comes for the Archbishop   ❧ Willa Cather … Education Coordinator at  rolsen@willacather.org or 1.866.731.7304 (office) …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… immigrant stock; Cather’s books about that time—like My Àntonia and O Pioneers! and One of Ours— allow us … we could picture the place where much of the early part of My Àntonia takes place. That was really fun, and we think it …
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Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner

… history, and Karr recognized this after reading a copy of My Ántonia given to her by her own grandmother. “I loved that …
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Now Booking School and Group Tours For the Fall

… Image Now Booking School and Group Tours For the Fall July 31, 2019 Summer is in full-swing here in rural Nebraska, but … any size. Is your high school class writing an essay about My Ántonia ? If so, our 7-Building Tour throughout the town …
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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains

… nodding in time to his bites as he ate down toward them.” — My Ántonia When Jim Burden recalls the legend of “the sunflower-bordered roads to freedom” in  My Ántonia , he remembers the story of Mormon settlers, …
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Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020

… professor sent her essay about Thomas Carlyle to the Nebraska State Journal for publication. Writing still has … anywhere in the country! Students do not have to be from Nebraska to be eligible. Those who are awarded a scholarship …
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An Opportunity to Help Conserve our Collection

… expert attention. An original W.T. Benda illustration from My Ántonia , which had been cut and framed decades ago, will be … contact executive director Ashley Olson at 402-746-2653 or aolson@willacather.org for details. You may also donate …
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Winter Greetings from the Cather Foundation

… County woman who inspired Cather's beloved character Ántonia. In the card, Cather wrote "Wishing Annie a Happy …
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Meet Intern William Kelly

… Cather Foundation? My upbringing split time between Omaha, Nebraska, and LaGrange, Indiana. I’m a proud alum of Wabash … year of a master’s program in history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. My developing interest in nonprofit … because one wouldn’t expect a small rural town in Nebraska to have such a variety of offerings. What has …
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