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O Pioneers!

… Image © Tracy Sanford Tucker for the National Willa Cather Center A University … of Nebraska-Lincoln Opera Opera House Friday, Oct 20, 2023 | 7 - 10pm the Red Cloud Opera House 413 N Webster … Tickets UNL Opera presents Tyler Goodrich White’s O Pioneers! based on Willa Cather’s 1913 novel--her first …
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Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience

… to make history come alive for people.” This work of the Foundation is of vital importance to Loomis, who allocated a … project, and then joined the Cather Legacy Society to support future maintenance at the site through a planned … Legacy Society , or if you have named the Willa Cather Foundation as a beneficiary in your estate plans, please …
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Pavelka Farmstead

… My Ántonia . Pavelka worked as a hired girl, helping to support her family after they immigrated from Bohemia and … Review , published three times a year by the Willa Cather Foundation, and an article about the Pavelka Farmstead — …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home to Close August 15 for Restoration

… cedar shingle roof, gutters, and downspouts Repair of the foundation and reconstruction of window wells Retention of … to the interior and site exterior. Please consider supporting the project with a charitable gift. Pledges are … may also be made online . Thank You! This project is supported by a Save America’s Treasures grant administered …
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Potter Block Rehabilitation Reaches Fundraising Milestones

… and underpinning prepared the Potter Block building to support the eventual return of a third floor that was lost … and Red Cloud Community Fund of the Nebraska Community Foundation. The Heritage Tourism Development Office was … of Omaha, Nebraska. How You Can Help Please consider supporting the project with a charitable gift. Naming and …
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Potter Block Ceremonial Groundbreaking

… was completed in 2020 prepared the historic building to support the return of a third floor that was lost to fire in … Fund (an affiliated fund of the Nebraska Community Foundation). Over $5 million in donations, grants, and … charitable gifts can be made to the Willa Cather Foundation or the Red Cloud Community Fund. Donations of any …
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2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees

… fan. The scholarship established by her ample bequest supports young women seeking higher education. Antonette … voluntary contributions by our Board of Governors to support a graduate of the local high school. Cather herself … Cather did. Scholarships awarded through the Willa Cather Foundation since 1987 total more than $200,000 and have …
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John William Boone & Cather

… Boone & Cather "for I shall be the first... " In Cather’s  My Ántonia , narrator Jim Burden encounters the ancient Roman … is "On Working the Land." From the  Georgics   comes the  My Ántonia 's epigraph, “Optima dies . . . prima fugit.” The …
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Press Room

… that follow for contact information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, and the work of the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska. Contact … House (restored in 2003). It contains an archive, museum, gallery, and study center owned and operated by the Willa …
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Organization History

… work; the  St. Juliana Catholic Church , of the novel  My Ántonia  the  Grace Episcopal Church , which houses a pair of … Baptist Church, which Cather attended as a child. In 2003, the Foundation completed a $1.7 million restoration of …
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