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Member Profile: Meet Jerry and Susan Anderson
… immigrant stock; Cather’s books about that time—like My Àntonia and O Pioneers! and One of Ours— allow us … we could picture the place where much of the early part of My Àntonia takes place. That was really fun, and we think it …
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Webster County Sixth Grader MaKenna Karr Celebrates Antonette Willa Skupa Turner
… history, and Karr recognized this after reading a copy of My Ántonia given to her by her own grandmother. “I loved …
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Now Booking School and Group Tours For the Fall
… 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
… nodding in time to his bites as he ate down toward them.” — My Ántonia When Jim Burden recalls the legend of “the sunflower-bordered roads to freedom” in My Ántonia , he remembers the story of Mormon settlers, … an early account, and it's from these depictions that the myth of Western settlers using the colorful blooms as trail …
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Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020
Image Student and Educator Scholarships for 2020 August 28, 2019 As a young college student, Willa Cather’s academic path took an unexpected turn when, unbeknownst to her, a college professor sent her essay about Thomas Carlyle to the Nebraska State …
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Winter Greetings from the Cather Foundation
Image Winter Greetings from the Cather Foundation December 20, 2018 The Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors and staff wish you all the joys of the season. This year's holiday card was reproduced from an undated Christmas card Willa Cather sent to …
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An Opportunity to Help Conserve our Collection
… expert attention. An original W.T. Benda illustration from My Ántonia , which had been cut and framed decades ago, will …
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Meet Intern William Kelly
… and what brought you to the Willa Cather Foundation? My upbringing split time between Omaha, Nebraska, and … LaGrange, Indiana. I’m a proud alum of Wabash College where my passion for history first took root and flourished. Currently, I’m heading into my second year of a master’s program in history at the …
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St. Juliana Falconieri Catholic Church
Image St. Juliana Falconieri Catholic 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 the "poor …
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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 … and in all that country it was the spot most dear to me.” — My Antonia Country Tour United States …
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