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Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge

… Image Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge December 29, 2011 The Willa Cather Foundation is excited to promote continued reading of … List: January: Alexander's Bridge (1912) February: O Pioneers! (1913) March: The Song of the Lark (1915) April: …
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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 … 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 … 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

… Her work has appeared on book covers for Cather’s Kitchens, Catfish at the Pump, and The Convivial Cup . Linda …
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Spring Conference Call for Papers

… Image Image Spring Conference Call for Papers December 5, 2011 Willa Cather, Poet: Making Herself Born The 57th annual … 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

… Image One Book One Nebraska November 4, 2012 Members of the Willa Cather Foundation staff and board … at the Celebration of Nebraska Books in Lincoln when O Pioneers! was announced as the One Book One Nebraska …
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