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Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators
… boxed lunch ($15 per person, inc. tax/tip) or a customized menu at extra cost. Or let us plan a perfect prairie …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… about us? We are big fans of Willa Cather. Having spent our childhoods in Iowa and Kansas, we were aware of Cather’s Red … to the incredible beauty of the prairie. We also loved the tour of Cather’s childhood home – seeing her attic room just as she described it, as …
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Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner
… Image Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner September 25, 2019 Some kids … about where I lived,” Karr explained. She has also read O Pioneers! and she has a copy of Sapphira and the Slave Girl …
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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains
… Image Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains August 28, 2019 “The road ran about … Helianthus annuus and Helianthus petiolarus . Mormon pioneers described finding sage and sunflowers in 1850s Utah …
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Meet Intern William Kelly
… at the Burlington Depot, beginning to read through Willa Cather’s work, and exploring the prairie and rural environs. … own life experiences—such as travel—come through in her own writing. What are you doing this summer at the National …
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Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder Joins Cather Legacy Society
… Image Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder Joins Cather Legacy Society May 24, 2017 Reflecting back on her … compelled Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder to become a member of the Willa Cather Foundation – and ultimately to join the Cather … work, you come to better understand Cather and her writing.” Ryder decided to include the WCF in her estate …
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New NET Production 'Yours, Willa Cather' Spans, Radio, TV, & Digital
… Image New NET Production 'Yours, Willa Cather' Spans, Radio, TV, & Digital … of the 20th century including the novels My Ántonia and O Pioneers! . But the voice of the private Willa Cather tells …
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Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012
… May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium … poetry as much as she was to the short fiction she was also writing then. Much has been made of her enthusiasm for the …
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2013 Spring Conference
… Image 2013 Spring Conference June 5, 2012 "We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who … celebrate the centennial of Cather's breakthrough novel O Pioneers! in which she "hit the home pasture." The novel …
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Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge
… 2012 Reading Challenge December 29, 2011 The Willa Cather Foundation is excited to promote continued reading of Cather's … List: January: Alexander's Bridge (1912) February: O Pioneers! (1913) March: The Song of the Lark (1915) April: …
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