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Essay Contest Winners
… Image Essay Contest Winners September 17, 2012 "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating … the 100th publication anniversary of Willa Cather's O Pioneers! , the Willa Cather Foundation is proud to announce …
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The Divide
… Image The Divide In "The Enchanted Bluff" Cather speaks of the "windy plain that was all windmills and cornfields and big pastures." In O Pioneers! she mentions the furrows that "often lie a mile in …
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Clay Shelving Draws
… Image Clay Shelving Draws “But for the piece of rusty stovepipe sticking up through the sod, you could … the coyote that had lived there before him had done.” —O Pioneers! Clay draws are examples of land formations used to …
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Bladen Road (Road 800)
… Image Bladen Road (Road 800) This road leads to the Divide. This may have been the one Alexandra traveled in O Pioneers! As you travel this road, you will notice the slow, …
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Special Offer: Cather Country Retreat
… Image Special Offer: Cather Country Retreat October 13, 2014 The Willa Cather … evening cabaret show with Mary Carrick; Saturday night lodging at the historic Cather Second Home; and two guided … Song of the Lark . Join us on Saturday, November 8th and visit one of the most famous villages in American …
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Small Town Big Dreams
… Small Town Big Dreams March 3, 2010 "On my way East I broke my journey at Hastings, in Nebraska, … famous people to emerge from south central Nebraska were pioneers--Edwin Perkins, the inventor of Kool-Aid, and Willa …
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Currently On View In The Opera House
… Image Image Image Currently On View In The Opera House June 16, 2014 On view now in the historic Red … poetry, and also created an original work based on O Pioneers! in celebration of the 100th anniversary of its …
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Spring Conference Call for Papers
… Image Image Spring Conference Call for Papers December 5, 2011 Willa Cather, … 57th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference and the one-day scholarly symposium preceding it will be held May 31-June 2, … Spring" at the beginning of her "real" first novel, O Pioneers! , yet her actual first book, April Twilights …
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One Book One Nebraska
… of publication, including our annual Spring Conference in Red Cloud with a special emphasis on O Pioneers! , an art … best-loved works with everyone in Nebraska! Click here to visit the One Book One Nebraska website . …
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"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"
… Image "Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing" July 23, 2009 The … based on Cather's Nebraska story, " The Bohemian Girl . " O Pioneers! and " The Bohemian Girl " will be the featured … minutes. The featured texts for this conference will be O Pioneers! and "The Bohemian Girl," but papers addressing …
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