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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

… and his creation of the Willa Cather sculpture: updated in spring 2022 with sculpture casting process] " Willa Cather … Cather. Programs include the annual Willa Cather  Spring Conferences  and biennial  International Cather Seminars , …
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Organization History

… work; the  St. Juliana Catholic Church , of the novel  My Ántonia  the  Grace Episcopal Church , which houses a … Farmstead, the rural setting for the final scenes in  My Ántonia . A pivotal event was the 1962 dedication of the … gifts of the  J.L Miner House , a primary setting in  My Ántonia ,  as well as the First Baptist Church, which …
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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 24, 2026 | 6 - 7:15pm …
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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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Bibliography

… Ántonia  1918 One of Ours   1922 A Lost Lady  1923 The Professor's House  1925 My Mortal Enemy  1926 Death Comes for the … and Other Poems  1923 Collected Writings and Other Works My Autobiography  by S. S. McClure (as ghostwriter) 1914 Not Under Forty  1936 Willa …
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59th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference

… creative panel presentations, an Opera House production of My Ántonia by Minneapolis-based Illusion Theater, and … defining them and their situations. In O Pioneers! and My Ántonia , Cather was the first American novelist to treat … p.m. Art demonstrations at Cather Foundation sites: Dr. Amy Springer,recycled glass quilting with Kari Ronning and …
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"She was nearly as strong as I": Being Woman in the Workplace

… about a vibrant women’s organization in Scottsbluff, NE. My Ántonia  follows the lives of many different women, who … in Nebraska changed since Cather’s time? What echoes from My Ántonia can be found in today’s experiences as women?   …
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Andrea von Kampen

… debut album, Old Country , is based on Willa Cather’s My Ántonia . Ms. Von Kampen often draws on literature, art …
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