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I Love A Prairie: Author Pam Houston Visits Red Cloud
… highway for a stay on the way home—"the prairie might be my favorite landscape of all," Houston said. She teaches … Houston also wrote the short story collection Cowboys Are My Weakness , and many other books published by W.W. Norton, … Nebraska ,' to learn of the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie. My husband and I were driving back to Colorado from …
Posted: 08/11/2021
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
Writers Group Makes Its Way to Red Cloud
… Journey of Thirteen Bereaved Mothers took in all that Cather country has to offer, including tours , a weeklong stay at our historic lodging properties , and catered meals. Organized by Carol … newly restored Pavelka Farmstead . In preparation for their visit, the group read My Ántonia . Education coordinator …
Posted: 10/20/2021
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
MaKenna Karr Introduces Her School to Antonette Willa Turner
… she said. As part of its mission, the Willa Cather Foundation helps support K-12 educational initiatives by providing books, …
Posted: 10/22/2019
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
Celebrate National Pollinator Week on the Prairie
… and friends and to “get out among the folk who like me for myself,” as she said in a 1921 interview. "The ideas for all my novels have come from things that happened around Red … country then, on foot, on horseback and in our farm wagons. My nose went poking into nearly everything.” The prairie …
Posted: 06/26/2020
Last Updated: 07/19/2022
Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center
… Image Willa Cather Foundation to Create National Willa Cather Center March 25, … seminars, as well as arts and humanities events are held by the Foundation year-round in Red Cloud …
Posted: 01/04/2015
Last Updated: 07/11/2022
Willa Cather Sites Transferred to the Willa Cather Foundation
… Red Cloud. Anna Pavelka was the inspiration for the novel My Ántonia, published in 1918. Cather had visited the …
Posted: 01/18/2019
Last Updated: 07/11/2022
Donor Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi
… Profile: Nancy and Bernie Picchi October 21, 2020 Long-time supporters Nancy and Bernie Picchi recently made a major … match the pledge dollar-for-dollar with other private support. Thanks to conference-goers near and far, the Picchi … husband Bernie’s career in investment research analysis, Foundation founder Mildred Bennett appealed to Nancy to …
Posted: 10/19/2020
Last Updated: 07/11/2022
Robert and Ardis James Foundation Donates $250,000 for NWCC Endowment
… He has read all of the author’s books, but points to My Ántonia as a favorite. The National Willa Cather Center’s … the Pavelka Farmstead, a setting from the final scenes of My Ántonia , which is undergoing a full restoration to its …
Posted: 02/16/2021
Last Updated: 07/11/2022
Antonette Willa Skupa Turner: 1920-2021
… when you think about old times, won't you?" Cather wrote in My Ántonia . "And I guess everybody thinks about old times, …
Posted: 08/16/2021
Last Updated: 07/11/2022
Lingua Franca Finds Inspiration In the Great Plains and Willa Cather's Writing
… Center. “We’re grateful to the Lingua Franca team for supporting our mission through this unique partnership.” "It … Franca highlight Willa Cather's work. What a stylish way to support writing and reading!" The collection aims to … you to give back to nonprofits like the Willa Cather Foundation? I love that Lingua Franca has been able to give …
Posted: 03/24/2022
Last Updated: 07/11/2022