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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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2014 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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Annotations From the Archive: John Mallory Bates
… scientific-minded. Before her marriage she taught Astronomy and Mathematics at Wellesley College, the first professor … butterfly milkweed ( Asclepias tuberosa ) in her novel My Ántonia ; Bates didn’t believe it to be extant in the … to make the subject anything more than an incident in my life and a side issue on the nature study I love so …
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Annotations from the Archive: Julie Harris Estate Item Joins the Collection
… took a Bergers piece with her: a Cather-inspired scene from My Ántonia , with Blind d’Arnault taking the Red Cloud Opera … time for me and knowing you has been a blessing. I look at my blind pianist hanging on my bedroom wall and dream of Red Cloud.” Harris continued …
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Annotations from the Archive: Red Cloud's Founding
… “a kind of freemasonry,” as Willa Cather called it in My Ántonia . Their stories enhanced our understanding of … Ludlow Tennant, 1958: It was some eighty years ago that my grandfather, William Ludlow, a retired minister, …
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Annotations From the Archive: Soldiers' Letters
… time in getting to work on telling her cousin's story. My Ántonia was set to be published in September of that … of the illustrations. She enjoyed many wonderful reviews of My Ántonia , but by December she wrote to her editor, Ferris … story, which had been set aside previously as Cather began My Ántonia , and the other was “the soldier story.” One of …
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Annotations From the Archives: Fan Mail
… to know that the story has rung true to someone besides myself . . . . Anyone who has lived in one of those little … in his 1921 letter, “but when I got into your book- “My Antonia” [sic] - it so interested me that I stayed up …
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10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather!
… Image Image 10 Ways to Celebrate 150 Years of Willa Cather! April 26, 2023 Experience the prairie world of writer Willa Cather in Red Cloud, Nebraska! This year, the National Willa Cather … Here are 10 ways that you, too, can celebrate while visiting Nebraska this year (or around the country)! 1. Hike …
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Reading Cather at 150: A Virtual Study Series with Benjamin Taylor
… Special Events Thursday, Apr 27, 2023 | 7pm Discussion #1: My Ántonia As part of National Willa Cather Center's efforts … novels. The first study in this series will focus on My Ántonia , the novel that catapulted Cather's career to a … 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 21, …
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