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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes

… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie  "We come and go, but the land is …
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Pavelka Farmstead

Pavelka Farmstead “We turned to leave the cave; Antonia and I went up the stairs first, and the children waited. We were standing outside talking, when they all came running up the steps together, big and little, tow heads and gold heads and brown, and …
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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … Princeton. In 1944 she received the gold medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters.” 50 Volunteers, 34 …
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“Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years 

… The End of the First Cycle” Celebrates 100 Years  Cather's essay for the Nation still resonates September 5, … meditations, art and anthropology, reportage and polemic.” Cather wrote to her editor Alfred A. Knopf on August 25, … the importance of a place and its people—the traditions and prairie landscape of the Great Plains that Cather loved and …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson

… Image Sarah as Constanza from Mozart’s Abduction of the Seraglio A Visit with Sarah … Gynt” — referencing Norwegian immigrants as in Cather’s O Pioneers! Dvorak’s “Songs my Mother Taught Me” — Czech …
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Annotations from the Archives: Homesteading and Home-Building in the Archives

Annotations from the Archives: Homesteading and Home-Building in the Archives August 22, 2023 While Willa Cather was the member of the Cather family who shared life in early Nebraska with a reading public, she arrived with her parents a full decade after …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration July 21, 2022 The Willa Cather Childhood Home is a national treasure, one of … 30-minute narrated tour of the Willa Cather Childhood Home. About the Willa Cather Childhood Home Opened in 1967 and …
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Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… Image Willa's Cradle, by Betty Kort Image Out in the Kitchen, by … Betty assumed this position after twenty-five years of teaching both English and art, almost entirely within the … Nebraska Arts Council, Betty exhibited forty mixed media works at the Walker Gallery in the Good Samaritan Hospital …
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Virtual Author Series: David McKay Powell

Image Author Series Thursday, Sep 14, 2023 | 7 - 8pm Register Online Now Learn more about the art form that inspired Willa Cather during her entire life! Author David McKay Powell will join us to talk about his recent book, Cather and Opera . This virtual …
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Novels

… to contribute a lesson plan or activity based on teaching Willa Cather in your classroom, please contact director of … her heart, was it, or under her cheek? Anyhow, it was about her somewhere, that warm sureness, that sturdy little …
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