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Music on the Prairie

… Image Music on the Prairie May 16, 2011 When Willa Cather received the advice … welcome to explore the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie and learn about recent restoration efforts. The 608-acre …
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Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie

… Pollinator Week on the Prairie June 15, 2022 Visit the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie  "We come and go, but the land … strangeness,’ of saturating color and light. When you walk the Cather Prairie, you move not only backward in time … Cather’s Prairie ,” The New Yorker We encourage you to take guided tours that depart from the National Willa Cather …
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Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing

… about Willa Cather through school-assigned readings of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia . But, it wasn’t until later, as a …
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Tim Youd: Retyping Willa Cather

… Youd will retype three Cather novels in their entirety: O Pioneers !, The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia . These will … 10-29. In addition, from April 1-8, Youd will retype O Pioneers! , hosted by the Willa Cather Archive at the …
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Virtual Book Talk With Daryl W. Palmer

… book talk with Daryl W. Palmer, who will discuss his book,  Becoming Willa Cather: Creation and Career . Palmer will be joined by …
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Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators

… Willa Cather, Nebraska’s foremost citizen and author of O Pioneers! , My Ántonia & Death Comes for the Archbishop   ❧ …
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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… 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

… 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

… Helianthus annuus  and  Helianthus petiolarus . Mormon pioneers described finding sage and sunflowers in 1850s Utah …
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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 … It adds another dimension to her stories when you can walk around the setting of that story, whether it’s Hanover, … after that, I’ll move on to the famed My Ántonia . I try to take my reading out to the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie as …
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