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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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Virtual Author Series: Sarah Fawn Montgomery and Suzanne Ohlmann

… monarch groves of California, to the fossil beds and grass prairies of Nebraska, to the scrimshaw shops and tangled … arts manager, and registered nurse, Ohlmann finally lands in Texas, buys a house, and gets a dog. But her house … Mad Women  (Dancing Girl Press, 2017),  Leaving Tracks: A Prairie Guide  (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and  The …
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Virtual Author Series: Tracy Daugherty

… Street.   This novel explores the friendship between Willa Cather and Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. Two different writers with distinct styles. Cather was the novelist while Sergeant was the muckraking …
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My Ántonia

… symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American … undemonstrative strength make her emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. We first meet Antonia …
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Annotations from the Archives: The Library

… local organizations or simply had to purchase their own small selection of reading materials. In 1913, the new Red Cloud YMCA created a library in one of its rooms, with material donated by the P.E.O. club, … It's unclear what became of the Carnegie application. The photo of Willa Cather reading to her younger siblings is …
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Meet our 2023 Humanities Interns!

… between the University of Nebraska and the National Willa Cather Center. Nolan Bennett , originally from Kearney, … Collection.  “I have already learned so much about Willa Cather and what the preservation of an author looks …
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Historian Hugh Ryan

… York , NY 10011 United States “The Two Greenwich Villages: Willa Cather’s New York City in a Time of Transition” Join us at the 18th International Willa Cather Seminar for this free and engaging talk about …
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Authors Margo Jefferson & Elizabeth Kendall

… Hall | B500 | 5th Floor New York , NY 10011 United States '"Raw and relentless/gaudy and extravagant": Willa Cather's …
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Visions Seen in the Air: An Invitational Exhibit

… in Red Cloud will be a celebration of 150 years of Willa Cather’s life and work. As part of that celebration, we will … in their own faces,—and this would always be his.” ~ Willa Cather,  A Lost Lady The exhibit’s title,  Visions …
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Visions Seen in the Air

… invited contributing artists to contemplate the essence of Willa Cather’s home town and to convey, through any medium, that … sense of place and feeling of home that would later inspire Cather as she created her six Nebraska novels. Exhibiting …
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