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Small Town Big Dreams

… famous people to emerge from south central Nebraska were pioneers--Edwin Perkins, the inventor of Kool-Aid, and Willa … preserving and promoting the legacies of these remarkable pioneers. From watching movies and documentaries at the Lied …
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Currently On View In The Opera House

… 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

… 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

… at the Celebration of Nebraska Books in Lincoln when O Pioneers! was announced as the One Book One Nebraska … Spring Conference in Red Cloud with a special emphasis on O Pioneers! , an art exhibit entitled, Inspired by O Pioneers!, our essay contest for high school juniors and …
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"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"

… Ours , wines in The Professor's House , alcoholism in The Song of the Lark , etc.. Food production: agriculture and the Great … Ours , wines in The Professor's House , alcoholism in The Song of the Lark , etc.. Food production: agriculture and …
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Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

… United States and in Canada and Europe. The imaginative "Catherland" of her fiction draws on the full range of these …
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An Evening of Arts and Entertainment

… is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Willa Cather's O Pioneers! with a special evening in Omaha featuring an art auction and O Pioneers! entertainment. The Willa Cather Foundation Art … Also in the auction will be three framed, limited edition O Pioneers! posters and a number of Cather-themed gift …
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Willa Cather Book Club

… Cather Book Club has begun meeting again! Beginning with O Pioneers! (2013's One Book One Nebraska selection), the … our educational mission, developed for the celebration of O Pioneers! 100th publication anniversary and with One Book … of writers to come. 2013-2014 Schedule October 16, 2013 - O Pioneers! , pt. 1 (2013 One Book One Nebraska selection) …
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Showing at The Lark

… 11, 2014 Heralded as Willa Cather's first great novel, O Pioneers! is coming off of a banner year in 2013. Not only … , will be hosting two viewings of the film version of O Pioneers! staring Jessica Lang on Saturday, February 22. A … students may purchase a concession ticket for $10. O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first novel to feature …
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2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image 2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference March 13, 2014 Mapping Literary … In O Pioneers! and My Ántonia , Cather was the first American novelist to treat the Plains of Nebraska as … Cather mapped many other literary landscapes: the Southwest in three novels, colonial Quebec in Shadows on the …
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