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National Willa Cather Center to Offer New Opportunities

… Image National Willa Cather Center to Offer New Opportunities August 12, 2016 As … of over 100 photos of the George and Franc Cather family, Willa Cather’s uncle and aunt, the first Cathers to … spaces like a classroom, greenroom, and expanded art gallery will enable us to deliver arts and educational …
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Pavelka Farm Served as 4th Tourism Serves Site

… provided part of the setting for Cather's beloved novel, My Ántonia . Over forty volunteers that assisted with the … prepare to celebrate the 100th publication anniversary of My Ántonia in 2018.” …
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Pavelka Farmstead Selected As Tourism Serves Site

… – 4 p.m. : Meet at the Farmstead near Bladen, Nebraska The service site is located southeast of Bladen, Nebraska, 1/2 … hats, dust mask, boots or whatever would help someone account for November weather are recommended. Work gloves … Tourism Serves program, with the goal to organize four service projects. The first project was held in May, where …
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2016 Scholarship Recipients

… honors Pavelka, the prototype and inspiration for Ántonia Shimerda Cuzak, the eponymous character in Cather’s … contact Tracy Tucker, Education Director, at 402-746-2653 or ttucker@willacather.org. Application forms for 2017 are available online and annual deadlines are January 31 and February 28, respectively. …
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New Items Join our Collection

… collection are four of the original Benda illustrations to My Ántonia . These illustrations join two additional Benda … in the novel when it was released in 1918. The image of Ántonia driving cattle in a blizzard (shown to the right) is …
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New NET Production 'Yours, Willa Cather' Spans, Radio, TV, & Digital

… network which includes NET Television, NET Radio, NET Learning Services and NET Technology Services. To learn more, visit netNebraska.org . …
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61st Annual Spring Conference Call for Papers

… 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

… Albertinis Become Charter Members of Legacy Society July 23, 2015 Dr. Virgil Albertini and his wife Dolores first … 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

… 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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Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge

… Alexander's Bridge (1912) February: O Pioneers! (1913) March: The Song of the Lark (1915) April: My Ántonia (1918) May: One of Ours (1922) June: A Lost Lady …
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