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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
… 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
… School and teaches environmental law while Susan has retired from a career in education law. Both avid Willa Cather enthusiasts, the Andersons have traveled to … sunset on the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. You recently visited Red Cloud. What brought you here and how did you …
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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
… When Jim Burden recalls the legend of “the sunflower-bordered roads to freedom” in My Ántonia , he remembers the … found sunflowers being grown by many of the tribes they visited in the 1500s and took those seeds with them as they … always seem to me the roads to freedom." When you visit Willa Cather's Red Cloud or the Willa Cather Memorial …
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Meet Intern William Kelly
… say my favorite book is tied between O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark . The former because Cather gives words to feelings I … archive, art gallery, Opera House; not to mention the events held at the Opera House, or our conferences. It was …
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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
… fiction of the 20th century including the novels My Ántonia and O Pioneers! . But the voice of the private Willa … Janis Stout, the NET project includes original video, audio, photography, and commentary. The voice of Willa …
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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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