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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson

… Image Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson December 8, … Willa Cather Center in particular and what motivated you to become members of the Willa Cather Foundation? The Center does an …
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Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner

… Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner September 25, 2019 Some kids growing up in Webster County, Nebraska, may not … history, and Karr recognized this after reading a copy of My Ántonia given to her by her own grandmother. “I loved that …
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Now Booking School and Group Tours For the Fall

… Image Now Booking School and Group Tours For the Fall July 31, 2019 Summer is in full-swing here in rural Nebraska, but … any size. Is your high school class writing an essay about My Ántonia ? If so, our 7-Building Tour throughout the town …
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Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains

… Image Sunflower Trails Across the Great Plains August 28, 2019 “The road ran about like a wild thing, avoiding the deep … nodding in time to his bites as he ate down toward them.” — My Ántonia When Jim Burden recalls the legend of “the …
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Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020

… Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020 August 28, 2019 As a young college student, Willa Cather’s academic path … Willa Cather Foundation awards each year. Furthermore, our Ántonia Scholarship, named for Cather’s most famous literary …
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An Opportunity to Help Conserve our Collection

… An Opportunity to Help Conserve our Collection April 26, 2019 Would you like to directly support our preservation … expert attention. An original W.T. Benda illustration from My Ántonia , which had been cut and framed decades ago, will be …
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Winter Greetings from the Cather Foundation

… Winter Greetings from the Cather Foundation December 20, 2018 The Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors and staff … County woman who inspired Cather's beloved character Ántonia. In the card, Cather wrote "Wishing Annie a Happy …
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Meet Intern William Kelly

… Image Meet Intern William Kelly June 26, 2019 It is both refreshing and encouraging to have young and … and what brought you to the Willa Cather Foundation? My upbringing split time between Omaha, Nebraska, and … of the Lark . So after that, I’ll move on to the famed My Ántonia . I try to take my reading out to the Willa Cather …
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St. Juliana Falconieri Catholic Church

… Church It was here that Annie Pavelka, the prototype for Ántonia, baptized her baby and later married. The building, erected in 1883 and used until 1903, later became a residential home. Visitors will notice …
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Suicide Grave

Image Suicide Grave The former location of the Mr. Shimerda's suicide grave in My Antonia  was described by Willa Cather as a little island of tall red grass. Francis Sadilek, the prototype for Mr. Shimerda, committed suicide in February 1881 and was …
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