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Willa Cather in Fine Books & Collections
Image Fine Books & Collections • Summer 2023 Image Article in Fine Books & Collections Willa Cather in Fine Books & Collections Feature Article in Summer 2023 issue August 1, 2023 Willa Cather, the National Willa Cather Center, and some of our archival …
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Dane Church
Image Dane Church Central to the Scandinavian settlement area, St. Stephenie Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Church and the neighboring cemetery are known locally as the Dane Church. During Cather's time in the area, the church hired a Czech immigrant …
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2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees
… Southeast High School); runner up, Ava Hoffschneider (Pius X High School); and second runner up, Trinity Houchin … Cather did. Scholarships awarded through the Willa Cather Foundation since 1987 total more than $200,000 and have … pursuing a higher education degree. For more information about our scholarship funds, please contact director of …
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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 … is "On Working the Land." From the Georgics comes the My Ántonia 's epigraph, “Optima dies . . . prima fugit.” The … a 1918 review for The Dial , Randolph Bourne writes of My Ántonia , “Here at last is an American novel, redolent …
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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 …
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Press Room
… Their Downtown , Rissell Ventura, NTV ABC, May 28, 2022 Get Involved Support Our Work The Willa Cather Foundation is a …
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Country Tour
… highlights twenty historic sites related to the life and writing of Willa Cather. You may schedule a guided tour of these sites by …
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Organization History
… Image Organization History Advancing Her Legacy The Willa Cather Foundation (WCF) was founded in 1955 by a group … intertwined with Cather’s fictional worlds. Bennett’s 1951 biography The World of Willa Cather is still widely used by scholars as a valuable …
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Event Archives
… the 20th century. Her groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers!, My Antonia, One of Ours, Death Comes for the Archbishop ) set a …
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Honors and Achievements
… 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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