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Music on the Prairie

… the land that Cather so vividly described in works such as My Ántonia and O Pioneers!. “Music on the Cather Prairie” … at the Red Cloud Opera House on Sunday, June 5, at 3 p.m. Glover will read from her collection, and writers …
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60th Annual Spring Conference to be held in Red Cloud

… June 5-7, 2015, celebrating groundbreaking of the National Willa Cather Center, the Willa Cather Foundation’s 60th year, and … focus on the novel and on the arts that influenced Cather’s writing. Richard Norton Smith is an author, historian, and a …
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I Love A Prairie: Author Pam Houston Visits Red Cloud

… highway for a stay on the way home—"the prairie might be my favorite landscape of all," Houston said. She teaches … Houston also wrote the short story collection  Cowboys Are My Weakness , and many other books published by W.W. Norton, … read (nearly) all of Willa Cather’s books, have taught My Ántonia ,  The Song of the Lark and Death Comes for the …
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Writers Group Makes Its Way to Red Cloud

… Farmstead . In preparation for their visit, the group read My Ántonia . Education coordinator Rachel Olsen joined the …
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Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie

… Pollinator Week on the Prairie June 15, 2022 Visit the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie  "We come and go, but the land is … backdrop and omniscient character in some of Cather’s writing—it also shaped her very soul. She said of her love …
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Meet our 2022 Summer Humanities Interns!

… Humanities Interns! June 15, 2022 This summer, the National Willa Cather Center, with support from the Nebraska Cather … to become an English professor. She enjoys literature and writing and was a peer mentor in exploratory studies at UNO, …
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"A Lost Lady" Published in Brazil in Portuguese

… Image "A Lost Lady" Published in Brazil in Portuguese July 1, 2019 … courses. Their inaugural June 2019 publication of A Lost Lady in Brazilian Portuguese, Uma mulher perdida , has …
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Meet Our 2021 Summer Interns

… in our archives. The Humanities Internship at the National Willa Cather Center is funded through a collaboration between the … involvement at UNL is as a consultant and fellow at the writing center, where I have worked for the past two years. …
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Humanities Nebraska Sponsors Free Spring Conference Events

… Free Spring Conference Events May 24, 2021 The National Willa Cather Center will host its 66th annual Spring Conference … directly answers the question: how does Cather's life and writing relate to our shared experience today? REGISTER FOR …
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Couple Donates Beloved Allan Tubach Painting

… for several of her classic novels about prairie life. My favorites are My Ántonia and The Song of the Lark .” A few years ago, Ruth … contact Executive Director, Ashley Olson at (402) 746-2653 or by email at aolson@willacather.org …
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