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Students Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely!
… As a high school student, Braxton was required to read My Ántonia, and he became interested in how the book’s time …
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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
… – the unbroken sea of grass stretching out to the horizon. Remarkably, we met the artist Matilda Essig on our …
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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
… Image Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains August 28, 2019 “The road ran about like a wild … the trail on the Laramie Plain of Wyominng in The Song of the Lark , "where the wagon-trails of the … the landscape.] However, sunflowers were nothing new on the Plains. As early as 5,000 years ago, Native Americans …
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Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020
Image Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020 August 28, 2019 As a young college student, Willa Cather’s academic path took an unexpected turn when, unbeknownst to her, a college professor sent her essay about Thomas Carlyle to the Nebraska State …
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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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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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