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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… Image Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson December 8, … Willa Cather Center in particular and what motivated you to become members of the Willa Cather Foundation? The Center does an …
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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

… and membership while mentoring with our executive director, Ashley Olson. While in Red Cloud, he is living in the apartment at …
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Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder Joins Cather Legacy Society

… lasting gift to the Willa Cather Foundation please contact Ashley Olson, Executive Director, at aolson@willacather.org or 402-746-2653. …
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New NET Production 'Yours, Willa Cather' Spans, Radio, TV, & Digital

… of the 20th century including the novels My Ántonia and O Pioneers! . But the voice of the private Willa Cather tells …
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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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Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge

… 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

… the 100th publication anniversary of Willa Cather's O Pioneers! , the Willa Cather Foundation is proud to announce the winners of the O Pioneers! Essay Contest. We received a number of excellent … 100th anniversary of the publication of Willa Cather's O Pioneers! , the Willa Cather Foundation is offering students …
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