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Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… Image Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House " I am not exaggerating, Carrie, when I … a shared half bathroom. Named after the Nebraska town in  O Pioneers! , the room is above the former kitchen with its …
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Norma Ross Walter Scholarship

… School 2012: Emily Simmons, Valentine High School 2013: Alexandra Baxter, Millard North High School 2014: Grace …
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Reading Willa Cather

… Kaatsbaan Arts Center, and UCLA. Readings performed by Alexandra Om Bailey and Scott Tanner. Cather selections are …
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Novels

… Wild Land "Bergson had spent his first five years on the Divide getting into debt, and the last six getting out. He …
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O Pioneers!

… Image Vintage cover of O Pioneers! O Pioneers! Book Club Resources O Pioneers!  (1913) was Willa …
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Press Room

… that follow for contact information, buzz about Cather, her ongoing relevance, links to our social media, … McKeeby House Pavelka Farmstead  (part of our “ Country Tour ”) Willa Cather Memorial Prairie Programs and services include regular guided  historic site tours , conservation of the 612-acre Willa Cather Memorial …
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Oh/Pioneers Play by A.P. Andrews

… September 10th at 5 pm After the death of her father, Alexandra Bergson takes over her family's farm in the small …
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Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner

… in Cather’s works that inspire her, Karr said, “I love Alexandra in O Pioneers! She’s awesome. She took over after …
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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, … road began to climb the first long swells of the Divide, Alexandra hummed an old Swedish hymn, and Emil wondered why …
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Showing at The Lark

… of the people who settled it. Cather's heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie … But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of …
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