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Dane Church
… and when Ondrak heard of the damage, he reportedly cried, "My Yesus! My Yesus! Blown all to hell!" The Dane Church and cemetery … Norwegian cemetery that refuses to bury Mr. Shimerda in My Ántonia ; Francis Sadilek, the prototype for Mr. Shimerda, …
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2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees
… Willa Skupa Turner, and National Willa Cather Center scholarships. Six students presented their winning essays at … by her ample bequest supports young women seeking higher education. Antonette Turner generously established both the … assists Webster County students pursuing secondary education or agricultural degrees. The National Willa Cather …
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John William Boone & Cather
… Boone & Cather "for I shall be the first... " In Cather’s My Ántonia , narrator Jim Burden encounters the ancient Roman … is "On Working the Land." From the Georgics comes the My Ántonia 's epigraph, “Optima dies . . . prima fugit.” The …
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The Collections at National Willa Cather Center
… Water Image Steriopticon Image Original illustration from My Ántonia The Collections at National Willa Cather Center The …
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Press Room
… life. Cather was the first American writer to use the Great Plains as a detailed setting for fiction; she taught her readers how to see the prairie-plains. She built worlds. Cather’s evocation of the American … in Cather's work—in particular O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), My Ántonia (1918), One of Ours …
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Country Tour
… Image The Divide Country Tour "As I looked about me I felt that the …
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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 …
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Event Archives
Event Archives Keywords Type - Any - Art Gallery Author Series International Seminar Opera House Prairie Writers Special Events Spring Conference Image Cather After Dark: Mourning, Medicine, and Murder Special Events: Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 | 6 - 7:15pm …
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Honors and Achievements
… Image Cather on the Cover of Time Magazine 1931 Honors and Achievements The Pulitzer Prize & More “Miss … of Arts and Letters (1944) Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters Received a William Dean Howells … Michigan, and Nebraska The Library of Congress included My Ántonia on its list of 100 novels that shaped America …
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Bibliography
… the Archbishop 1927 Shadows on the Rock 1931 Lucy Gayheart 1935 Sapphira and the Slave Girl 1940 Short Fiction … Campus Years 1950 Willa Cather in Europe 1956 The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements …
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