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Students Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely!
… Students Braxton Benes and Alise Perault Join the Willa Cather Foundation as Summer Interns—Remotely! June 25, 2020 … created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Willa Cather Center was able to reconfigure two summer internships … on-site, he is most interested in experiencing the guided tours and also visiting the prairie. Much like one of his …
Posted: 06/25/2020
Last Updated: 07/01/2020
Educator & Student Opportunities this Spring
… deadlines, please contact our education coordinator Rachel Olsen at rolsen@willacather.org or 402-746-2653. …
Posted: 02/18/2020
Last Updated: 02/25/2020
Bus Tours Welcome! A Guide for Tour Operators
… additional information or to plan or book your group tour: Rachel Olsen, Education Coordinator at rolsen@willacather.org or 1.866.731.7304 (office) …
Posted: 02/07/2020
Last Updated: 02/13/2020
Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… who was on her way to the National Willa Cather Center to install her amazing exhibit on native grasses . Her work …
Posted: 12/05/2019
Last Updated: 12/30/2019
Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner
… history, and Karr recognized this after reading a copy of My Ántonia given to her by her own grandmother. “I loved …
Posted: 09/24/2019
Last Updated: 09/26/2019
Now Booking School and Group Tours For the Fall
… Image Image Now Booking School and Group Tours For the Fall July 31, 2019 Summer is in full-swing … for schools or groups who want to learn more about Willa Cather and the town that inspired so much of her writing. Here at the National Willa Cather Center, we offer an array of guided tour …
Posted: 07/30/2019
Last Updated: 08/29/2019
Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains
… Image Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains August 28, 2019 “The road ran about like a wild … the trail on the Laramie Plain of Wyominng in The Song of the Lark , "where the wagon-trails of the … the landscape.] However, sunflowers were nothing new on the Plains. As early as 5,000 years ago, Native Americans …
Posted: 08/27/2019
Last Updated: 08/29/2019
Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020
Image Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020 August 28, 2019 As a young college student, Willa Cather’s academic path took an unexpected turn when, unbeknownst to her, a college professor sent her essay about Thomas Carlyle to the Nebraska State …
Posted: 08/20/2019
Last Updated: 08/29/2019
Winter Greetings from the Cather Foundation
Image Winter Greetings from the Cather Foundation December 20, 2018 The Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors and staff wish you all the joys of the season. This year's holiday card was reproduced from an undated Christmas card Willa Cather sent to …
Posted: 12/27/2018
Last Updated: 07/10/2019
An Opportunity to Help Conserve our Collection
… expert attention. An original W.T. Benda illustration from My Ántonia , which had been cut and framed decades ago, will …
Posted: 04/26/2019
Last Updated: 07/10/2019