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MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner

… Image MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner October 25, 2019 “You have a little Willa Cather right here in Bladen,” Antonette Turner told a crowd … At the interview’s close, Karr revealed that she was writing her very own book about Turner, who was visibly …
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Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder Joins Cather Legacy Society

… Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder Joins Cather Legacy Society May 24, 2017 Reflecting back on her first Spring Conference many years … This is what scholars should do with knowledge. Part of my response was also due to Red Cloud itself and the … experience, however, Ryder was assigned the reading of My Antonia in 8 th grade. Something in the text spoke to her. …
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Nebraska Writers Guild to host Retreat at Cather Second Home

… Image Nebraska Writers Guild to host Retreat at Cather Second Home May 17, 2016 The Nebraska Writers Guild … Poetry Retreat to be held June 10th-12th, 2016 at the Willa Cather Second Home in Red Cloud, Nebraska. … and at 24 PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center’s online writing program. The public is invited to a reading on …
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71st Annual Spring Conference Schedule

… Junek, University of St. Thomas-Houston   "A Subconscious Existence": Sublime-Sentimental Aesthetics and Character … Willa Cather's O'Pioneers and One of Ours Catherine Loop, Texas A&M University   "Smoking censers and candles and … in Print and Practice - RCOH Auditorium   "The Night Express," Red Cloud, and Syndication James Jaap, Penn State …
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Exhibits

… Exhibits Exhibits The National Willa Cather Center, in addition to curating fine arts exhibitions … that further explore topics related to Willa Cather and her writing. A blend of historical images, archival papers, …
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George Wells' Orphan Train Experience

… would come along and pick me up and then she left. The older sisters—when I was there—one was fourteen and the … about where Grand Central Station is now. The two girls was old enough that they could press clothes and could make … youngest on the train. And I suppose I had to be six years old before they would take me on the train to be put in a …
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Tracy Sanford Tucker

… in the  Willa Cather Review , The New Territory Magazine , Old Northwest Quarterly, Whirlwind , and others. She …
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Country Tour

… highlights twenty historic sites related to the life and writing of Willa Cather. You may schedule a guided tour of these sites by …
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Welcome New Board Members

… Members April 2, 2026 Three new members of the National Willa Cather Center’s Board of Governors were enthusiastically … Antonette Pavelka Kort. A professor of first-year writing and American Literature at Saint Francis University, …
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Remembering Jennifer Hein

… for the 2024 Spring Conference, she expressed excitement about the Center’s plans to reinterpret its historic sites … it was to connect with fellow Cather readers and learn about the organization’s goals and efforts to reach a broad … in exhibits, programs, and historic spaces that continue to welcome readers to the National Willa Cather Center. If you …
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