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Virtual Book Talk With Daryl W. Palmer

… and career, Daryl W. Palmer’s groundbreaking literary biography offers a provocative new look at Willa Cather’s …
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Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators

… 7, 2020 Visit Red Cloud—Our unique small town on the prairie and meet Willa Cather, Nebraska’s foremost citizen and author of O … , My Ántonia & Death Comes for the Archbishop   ❧ Willa Cather once said, “I always return to Nebraska.” ❧ Visit one …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… has retired from a career in education law. Both avid Willa Cather enthusiasts, the Andersons have traveled to various settings around North America that appear in Willa Cather’s novels. They recently spent time in Red Cloud where … at a beautiful October sunset on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. You recently visited Red Cloud. What brought you …
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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

… dozens of blossoms. They made a golden ribbon across the prairie. Occasionally one of the horses would tear off with … using the colorful blooms as trail markers came to be. Cather directly referenced the trail on the Laramie Plain of … seem to me the roads to freedom." When you visit Willa Cather's Red Cloud or the  Willa Cather Memorial Prairie …
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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. Where are you from, what are your interests, and what brought you to the Willa Cather Foundation? My upbringing split time between Omaha, …
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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

… fiction of the 20th century including the novels My Ántonia and O Pioneers! . But the voice of the private … read by Nebraska native Marg Helgenberger, known for her Emmy-nominated role on the commercial television series, …
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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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