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Essay Contest Winners
… as fiercely as if they had never happened before." ~ Willa Cather As we celebrate the 100th publication anniversary of Willa Cather's O Pioneers! , the Willa Cather Foundation is proud to announce the winners of the O …
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George Cather Home
Image George Cather Home The George Cather home, just south of Bladen, was the setting for One of Ours . In the pasture west of the house, George and Frances "Franc" Cather built a dugout in 1873, becoming the first of the Cather family to resettle in …
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The New Virginia Church
Image The New Virginia Church The New Virginia Church was built by Virginians settling this area. Because this was a Methodist church, the Cathers did not attend services here but instead went to the Baptist services held in the old Catherton schoolhouse …
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Cather Homestead
Image Image Cather Homestead Northwest of the New Virginia Church is the location of the Cather homestead—the Burden homestead in My Ántonia . Willa Cather came here in 1883. Even then she was aware of the light air, the earth, the sun and the sky, with …
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The Divide
Image The Divide In "The Enchanted Bluff" Cather speaks of the "windy plain that was all windmills and cornfields and big pastures." In O Pioneers! she mentions the furrows that "often lie a mile in length" and the joyous, young "open face of the …
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Catherton Cemetery
Image Catherton Cemetery Originally, George Cathers's two sisters, Jennie (see "Macon Prairie") and Alverna, both of whom died of tuberculosis, were buried in an apple orchard north of the George Cather home. In later years, however, the bodies were moved …
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Bladen
Image Bladen Named for Ellen Bladen Gere, daughter of the founder of the Lincoln State Journal and friend of Willa Cather, the town of Bladen boasts the home of G.P. Cather and his wife and the Bladen Opera House, where Anna Pavelka was such a regular …
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Old Mill Dam
Image Old Mill Dam Old Mill Dam was the site of the mill in One of Ours . The mill dam was destroyed in the Republican River flood of 1935. "The mill road, that led off the highway and down to the river, had pleasant associations for Claude. When he was a …
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Clay Shelving Draws
Image Clay Shelving Draws “But for the piece of rusty stovepipe sticking up through the sod, you could have walked over the roof of Ivar’s dwelling without dreaming that you were near a human habitation. Ivar had lived for three years in the clay bank, …
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The Island in the Republican River
Image The Island in the Republican River The island appears in a number of Cather stories. In Lucy Gayheart winter prevails on the island, with black willows, twisted scrub oaks, and the bronze light of a winter sunset. In "The Enchanted Bluff," it is …
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