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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

… Image Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson December 8, 2019 Jerry and Susan Anderson live in the Des … stock; Cather’s books about that time—like My Àntonia and O Pioneers! and One of Ours— allow us to picture what life …
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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

… Trails Across the Great Plains August 28, 2019 “The road ran about like a wild thing, avoiding the deep draws, … crossing them where they were wide and shallow. And all along it, wherever it looped or ran, the sunflowers grew; … When Jim Burden recalls the legend of “the sunflower-bordered roads to freedom” in  My Ántonia , he remembers the …
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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

… Ryder to events like the Spring Conference.  “It’s an impetus for research and scholarship, especially for budding … Ryder decided to include the WCF in her estate planning because she wanted her legacy to include an organization that … a lasting gift to the Willa Cather Foundation please contact Ashley Olson, Executive Director, at …
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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 … many scholars believed that Cather burned most of her letters before her death. Not so. In the new NET Television … 6, 13, 20 and 27) on NET Radio. Based on the 2013 book The Selected Letters of Willa Cather , co-edited by University …
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Spring Conference: May 31-June 2, 2012

… and the one-day scholarly symposium preceding it will be focused on Cather the poet, on poetry, and on today's poets … p.m. P.E.O. salad luncheon and introduction of the Board of Governors, Auditorium 1:20 p.m.-4:30 p.m. A variety … prose is "poetic," very few readers have had much to say about Cather's own poetry. In 1962 scholar Bernice Slote …
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2013 Spring Conference

… while." These words ring as true today as they did the day Cather penned them, 100 years ago. Our spring conference will celebrate the centennial of Cather's breakthrough novel O Pioneers! in which she "hit … this year. Rowdy string-band MAW will entertain in the Opera House, and award-winning cowboy poet, storyteller, and …
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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 … List: January: Alexander's Bridge (1912) February: O Pioneers! (1913) March: The Song of the Lark (1915) April: My Ántonia …
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