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Virtual Book Talk With Daryl W. Palmer
… book talk with Daryl W. Palmer, who will discuss his book, Becoming Willa Cather: Creation and Career . Palmer will be joined by …
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Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators
… Image Image Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators February 7, 2020 Visit Red Cloud—Our unique small town on the prairie and meet Willa Cather, Nebraska’s foremost citizen and author of O …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… and our ancestors must have experienced – the unbroken sea of grass stretching out to the horizon. Remarkably, we met the … Cather Center to install her amazing exhibit on native grasses . Her work opened our eyes to the incredible beauty …
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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 growing up in Webster County, Nebraska, … 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 like a wild thing, avoiding the … Helianthus annuus and Helianthus petiolarus . Mormon pioneers described finding sage and sunflowers in 1850s Utah …
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Meet Intern William Kelly
… Image Meet Intern William Kelly June 26, 2019 It is both refreshing and encouraging to have young … to do), but I would say my favorite book is tied between O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark . The former because …
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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 first Spring Conference many … and responsive to the lessons embedded in her novels.” In O Pioneers! , Ryder’s favorite Cather novel, Cather wrote, …
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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 September 9, 2015 LINCOLN, Neb. (Sept. 2, 2015) – Nebraska author Willa … 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
… Image Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium preceding it will be focused on Cather … Spring" at the beginning of her "real" first novel, O Pioneers! , yet her actual first book, April Twilights …
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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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