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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 …
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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 … the Pavelka Farmstead made famous in Willa Cather's  My Ántonia Shop the National Willa Cather Center bookstore …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… story with the Willa Cather Foundation, please contact:   Catherine Pond, Marketing Coordinator, at cpond@WillaCather.org — she'd love to hear from you! To learn …
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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 …
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Now Booking School and Group Tours For the Fall

… 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, … an early account, and it's from these depictions that the myth of Western settlers using the colorful blooms as trail …
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Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020

… and all of the deadlines are in the first half of the calendar year. It may seem early to start thinking about …
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Winter Greetings from the Cather Foundation

Image Winter Greetings from the Cather Foundation December 20, 2018 The Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors and staff wish you all the joys of the season. This year's holiday card was reproduced from an undated Christmas card Willa Cather sent to …
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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 …
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Meet Intern William Kelly

… Image Meet Intern William Kelly June 26, 2019 It is both refreshing and encouraging to have young and emergent … to do), but I would say my favorite book is tied between O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark . The former because … archive, art gallery, Opera House; not to mention the events held at the Opera House, or our conferences. It was …
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