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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 … some of her personal novels including O Pioneers! and My Ántonia . 'The land belongs to the future,' said one of the …
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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

… Hoffschneider, Autumn Wissenburg, and Ella K. Gaskill 2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of … celebrated our 2023 recipients of the Norma Ross Walter, Ántonia, Antonette Willa Skupa Turner, and National Willa … up, Trinity Houchin (Minden High School).  This year’s Ántonia Scholarship winner is Campbell Collins (Collins …
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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

… Image Original illustration from My Ántonia The Collections at National Willa Cather Center The National … Willa Cather Center houses the earliest Willa Cather museum collections and archives, and we continue to make new … available to researchers. To access our collections, browse our Finding Aids or search for individual items in …
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Press Room

… Image Press Room We invite journalists, editors, bloggers, and the public … for the latest newsworthy information about our activities, events, and announcements. Please browse the sub-sections … as a regular setting in Cather's work—in particular  O Pioneers!  (1913),  The Song of the Lark  (1915),  My …
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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

… from America's past, as well as a special artistic features about Red Cloud! Reserve Tickets Learn More Image Virtual … Willa Cather Center, visits the Coffee House to speak about legendary author Willa Cather. Register for Event …
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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

… Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929  1972 Poetry April Twilights  1903 April Twilights and Other Poems  1923 Collected Writings and …
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