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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

… Image Image Image Currently On View In The Opera House June 16, 2014 On view now in the historic Red Cloud Opera House are … 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, 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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"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"

… supper based on Cather's Nebraska story, " The Bohemian Girl . " O Pioneers! and " The Bohemian Girl " will be the … as agriculture in other regions, as in Shadows on the Rock, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, Death Comes for the Archbishop Cookbooks (The …
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Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

… Image Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame February 25, 2011 On Friday, April 1, 2011 the Empire State Center … first achieved national recognition for novels such as O Pioneers! and My Ántonia, in which she drew on her own …
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An Evening of Arts and Entertainment

… Image An Evening of Arts and Entertainment September 11, 2013 The Willa Cather Foundation is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Willa Cather's O Pioneers! with a special evening in Omaha featuring an art …
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Willa Cather Book Club

… Image Willa Cather Book Club October 28, 2013 The Willa Cather Book Club has begun meeting again! Beginning with O Pioneers! (2013's One Book One Nebraska selection), the …
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Showing at The Lark

… Image Showing at The Lark February 11, 2014 Heralded as Willa Cather's first great novel, O Pioneers! is coming off of a banner year in 2013. Not only …
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2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image 2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference March 13, 2014 Mapping … to her characters, defining them and their situations. In O Pioneers! and My Ántonia , Cather was the first American …
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