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Our Final Ántonia Story!

… Image Our Final Ántonia Story! December 31, 2018 As we began celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the … this beloved novel is important to them. (To download the  Winter 2018 issue, click HERE .) As these stories arrived in … amazed and delighted and moved by them. I was surprised by how different they were, and by how they spoke to each …
Posted: 09/06/2018
Last Updated: 07/11/2022

Cather Legacy Society

… to the Foundation Why a Bequest?  This simple method of remembering the Willa Cather Foundation assures that some … to their tax situation. Meet Our Cather Legacy Society Members Loren Johnson Cather Devotion Inspires Legacy Gift … as a young scholar that compelled Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder to become a member of the Willa Cather Foundation – and …
Posted: 01/17/2023
Last Updated: 05/02/2025

Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead

… County, near Bladen, Nebraska, the farmstead served as the setting for the final scenes of My Ántonia . Anna Sadilek … of culture The Pavelka Family & Homestead as Prototype/Setting for Cather's Works My Ántonia primarly but also …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 04/30/2025

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… guests. The front parlor offers a relaxing and comfortable setting for family gatherings, book clubs, quilt groups, and …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/28/2025

Support

… Charitable IRA Rollover Volunteer Volunteer Opera House Sponsor Opera House Sponsor Conference Sponsor Conference Sponsor Shop Shop Preserve the Potter-Wright …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/01/2024

Willa Cather Statue Unveiled in National Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol

… in the centenary year of her Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours . Live viewing parties were held at the Nebraska … .” This novel and others set in Nebraska, including My Ántonia and A Lost Lady, helped to establish Cather’s career … for Statuary Hall, and I'm thrilled that Nebraska will finally have a literary heroine representing our state in …
Posted: 03/28/2019
Last Updated: 06/24/2024

Organization History

… Cather  is still widely used by scholars as a valuable source work for Cather’s early years. In the early 1950s, … work; the  St. Juliana Catholic Church , of the novel  My Ántonia  the  Grace Episcopal Church , which houses a pair … and the Pavelka Farmstead, the rural setting for the final scenes in  My Ántonia . A pivotal event was the 1962 …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/25/2023

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