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Virtual Book Talk With Daryl W. Palmer

… Image Opera House Thursday, Nov 19, 2020 | 7 - 8:30pm Join us for an engaging book talk with Daryl W. Palmer, … the relationship with Nebraska in the years leading up to O Pioneers! is more dynamic than many have thought.  Palmer is …
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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

… who was on her way to the National Willa Cather Center to install her amazing exhibit on native grasses . Her work …
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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

… Image Meet Intern William Kelly June 26, 2019 It is both refreshing and encouraging to have young and emergent scholars and future … 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

… characters were. As a high school sophomore, she chose The Song of the Lark for a class project, foreshadowing her future career as … the fellowship and sparked interest that bring Ryder to events like the Spring Conference.  “It’s an impetus for …
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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. … Not so. In the new NET Television documentary and NET Radio series, Yours, Willa Cather , the private person is … from her friendships with a select group of women. The NET Radio series begins Saturday, Sept. 5 and runs through …
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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" 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 … celebrate the centennial of Cather's breakthrough novel O Pioneers! in which she "hit the home pasture." The novel …
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