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An Immersive Willa Cather Experience

… Image Walking on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Image The Willa Cather Childhood Home was reopened … apartment steps away from the National Willa Cather Center Learn about Cather’s life and career by browsing exhibits at …
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Jack F. Preis

… traveler of the Midwest and Great Plains. "I first read My Ántonia in college while, during my summers, I was working on a farm in Illinois. When I read …
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Reinterpreting the Burlington Depot

… section of the depot, constructed in 1897, is the building Cather was familiar with during her last years in Red … functions as the crucial backdrop to telling the story of Willa Cather’s initial encounters with the Nebraska frontier … use of non-artifact tactile tools, props, and papers. More About the Project Image Key themes of the exhibit will …
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Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up

… that brought together elements of Progressivism and Protestantism, social reform and social reaction, populism and … But in the little towns, Hooverizing was creative and a test of character as well. As you next read through Cather's …
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Group Tours

… Nebraska’s foremost citizen and author of  O Pioneers! ,  My Ántonia  &  One of Ours Willa Cather once said, “I always … Farmstead, the famed setting at the end of Willa Cather's  My Ántonia Shop at the National Willa Cather Center …
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Antonette Willa Skupa Turner Scholarship

… for both Anton and Ántonia Shimerda in Cather's novel  My Ántonia  and Anton and Mary Rosicky in Cather's short …
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Leslie & Helen R. Wilson Memorial Scholarship

… schedule to graduate in the upper one-third the high school class, and an active participant in his or her church and … and educators interested in introducing Cather in the classroom. Please browse the descriptions that follow for …
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Norma Ross Walter Scholarship

… Wave during the Second World War and a career newspaper editor in California. A lover of Cather and frequent visitor …
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National Willa Cather Center Scholarship

… National Willa Cather Center Scholarship Due May 1 ABOUT THE SCHOLARSHIP / … generation of Cather readers and scholars, the Willa Cather Foundation annually awards a number of scholarships for … college-bound students who desire to major in English or history, graduate students presenting on Cather at academic …
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Annotations from the Archives: A Lost Lady Debuts

… interest to the audience were remarks by Pearl Keating, the editor-in-chief of the Scenario Department at Warner Bros. … of the Lark" I'll consent to the sale," she wrote to her editor Ferris Greenslet. "But I wish you would send me a …
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