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2016 Scholarship Recipients

… Image 2016 Scholarship Recipients June 29, 2016 A springtime tradition, the Willa Cather Foundation is … honors Pavelka, the prototype and inspiration for Ántonia Shimerda Cuzak, the eponymous character in Cather’s …
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New Items Join our Collection

… Image Image Image New Items Join our Collection August 1, 2012 When Jim and Angela Southwick came to Red Cloud for … collection are four of the original Benda illustrations to My Ántonia . These illustrations join two additional Benda …
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New NET Production 'Yours, Willa Cather' Spans, Radio, TV, & Digital

… Willa Cather' Spans, Radio, TV, & Digital September 9, 2015 LINCOLN, Neb. (Sept. 2, 2015) – Nebraska author Willa … fiction of the 20th century including the novels My Ántonia and O Pioneers! . But the voice of the private Willa …
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61st Annual Spring Conference Call for Papers

… Image 61st Annual Spring Conference Call for Papers September 8, … her novels written during WWI— The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia — and through her letters, her essays “Roll Call on …
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Albertinis Become Charter Members of Legacy Society

… Become Charter Members of Legacy Society July 23, 2015 Dr. Virgil Albertini and his wife Dolores first visited … one of the annual gatherings since that time. “I first read My Ántonia as a sophomore in high school, and Cather has been …
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2015 Scholarships Awarded

… Image 2015 Scholarships Awarded July 2, 2015 On June 5, the Willa … School. Educator Scholarship recipients were Brother Jeremy Dominc of Necedah, Wisconsin, who teaches junior high and … Shimerda Cuzak, the major character in Cather’s novel My Ántonia . The scholarship winners and the Willa Cather …
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Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge

… Image Willa Cather 2012 Reading Challenge December 29, 2011 The Willa Cather … Pioneers! (1913) March: The Song of the Lark (1915) April: My Ántonia (1918) May: One of Ours (1922) June: A Lost Lady …
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Cather Homestead

… 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, …
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Catherton Cemetery

… Ann Caroline Cather, Willa's grandparents—the Burdens in My Ántonia . "The moonlight silvered the long billowy grass …
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Murphy Grave

… given by J. L. Miner, prototype for Christian Harling in My Ántonia , to be the Catholic Cemetery. Around 1904, most of the graves were moved to the Red Cloud …
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