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Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes
… Image Image Image Escape Into Willa Cather's Prairie Landscapes May 1, 2023 Explore the … 281 near Lebanon, Kansas). If you're searching for the best location for a spectacular Nebraska sunset, sunrise, or even … and includes settings from Willa Cather's novels and childhood: homesteads and related cemeteries, churches, the …
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Pavelka Farmstead
… Pavelka Farmstead “We turned to leave the cave; Antonia and I went up the stairs first, and the children … of life out of the dark cave into the sunlight.” — My Ántonia The Pavelka Farmstead and the fruit cave described in My Antonia , from which the children emerged in a burst of …
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A Visit with Sarah Arneson
… 1. In addition to program notes on selections related to Cather’s works, this recent interview reveals more about Red … on a Fulbright and then to Vienna, where she first read Willa Cather’s novel, The Song of the Lark . “That is when I …
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Novels
… to contribute a lesson plan or activity based on teaching Willa Cather in your classroom, please contact director of education and engagement Rachel Olsen, at rolsen@willacather.org . As always, the Willa Cather Foundation is …
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Selected Shorts: Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America
… One of Ours , O Pioneers! , The Song of the Lark , and My Ántonia . This special evening of short fiction in …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… for this series. We will read: April 27, at 7:00 pm CT: My Ántonia June 1, at 12:30 pm CT: A Lost Lady September … Benjamin Taylor received a 2021 Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His memoir Here We Are was …
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Willa Cather in Fine Books & Collections
… some of her personal novels including O Pioneers! and My Ántonia . 'The land belongs to the future,' said one of …
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Dane Church
… cemetery are known locally as the Dane Church. During Cather's time in the area, the church hired a Czech … Ondrak to paint an altarpiece, "Christ in the Garden." When Willa Cather took her father to see it, Charles Cather observed …
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2023 High School Scholarship Awards Enable Pursuit of Humanities Degrees
… Pursuit of Humanities Degrees Awarded at our 68th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference July 7, 2023 On Friday, June 2, we … recipients of the Norma Ross Walter, Ántonia, Antonette Willa Skupa Turner, and National Willa Cather Center …
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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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