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Virtual 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

… Image Image Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators February 7, 2020 … Willa Cather, Nebraska’s foremost citizen and author of O Pioneers! , My Ántonia & Death Comes for the Archbishop   ❧ … Education Coordinator at  rolsen@willacather.org or 1.866.731.7304 (office) …
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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

… about where I lived,” Karr explained. She has also read O Pioneers!  and she has a copy of Sapphira and the Slave Girl … works that inspire her, Karr said, “I love Alexandra in O Pioneers! She’s awesome. She took over after her father’s …
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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

… Image Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder Joins Cather Legacy Society May 24, 2017 Reflecting back on … and responsive to the lessons embedded in her novels.” In O Pioneers! , Ryder’s favorite Cather novel, Cather wrote, … Executive Director, at aolson@willacather.org or 402-746-2653. …
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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

… May 31-June 2, 2012 May 16, 2011 The 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium … Cather's Poems, now in preparation, will be among the last volumes published in that series by the University of … be sent by February 15, 2012 to: Robert Thacker Canadian Studies Program St. Lawrence University Canton, New York …
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2013 Spring Conference

… celebrate the centennial of Cather's breakthrough novel O Pioneers! in which she "hit the home pasture." The novel … inspired their own work. Cather scholars will explore O Pioneers! , Cather's relationship with her mentor Sarah Orne … Willa Cather Spring Conference "Fortunate Country": O Pioneers! and the Prairie Homestead's Legacy May 30-June 1, …
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