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Spotlight on the Farmers and Merchants Bank Restoration

… offices before being purchased in 1959 by the Willa Cather Foundation. Following efforts to convert the building for … to our Campaign for the Future . If you, too, would like to support the rehabilitation of the bank, please donate online or mail your gift to the Willa Cather …
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Portrait of Evelyn Osborne Joins the Collection

… Canfield prevented “The Profile” being published in The Troll Garden , Cather’s 1905 collection of short stories, out of …
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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 is … backdrop and omniscient character in some of Cather’s writing—it also shaped her very soul. She said of her love …
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Meet our 2022 Summer Humanities Interns!

… Humanities Interns! June 15, 2022 This summer, the National Willa Cather Center, with support from the Nebraska Cather … to become an English professor. She enjoys literature and writing and was a peer mentor in exploratory studies at UNO, …
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Welcoming our new Executive Director

… Welcoming our new Executive Director March 21, 2014 The Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors has announced that … comes as Leslie Levy, current Executive Director of the Willa Cather Foundation, has been named Executive Director …
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Nationwide Ántonia Scholarship Opportunity

… Pavelka, prototype for Ántonia Shimerda in Cather’s novel My Ántonia and Mary Rosicky in Cather’s short story … will be asked to write an essay on Cather’s novel My Ántonia or her short story “Neighbour Rosicky.” … 2018, as we celebrate the 100th publication anniversary of My Ántonia. Applications will be available online by …
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Big Plans for the Publication Centenary of My Ántonia in 2018

… Centenary of My Ántonia in 2018 December 20, 2017 The Willa Cather Foundation is gearing up for a year-long celebration … write her life story. The novel is important both for its literary aesthetic and as a portrayal of important aspects …
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Remembering Ántonia

… Ántonia May 16, 2018 As we commemorate the centennial of My Ántonia , the Willa Cather Foundation would like to …
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Our Final Ántonia Story!

… the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Cather’s My Ántonia in the first 2018 issue of the Willa Cather … 2018 issue, click HERE .) As these stories arrived in my mailbox, I was amazed and delighted and moved by them. I … I wanted to hear more—and perhaps to chime in with my own story. Enjoy the last of our stories below, my own, …
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"A Lost Lady" Published in Brazil in Portuguese

… novel. We recently interviewed Tamboni on his interest in Willa Cather’s writing, his choice of A Lost Lady for their first …
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