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New NET Production 'Yours, Willa Cather' Spans, Radio, TV, & Digital

… fiction of the 20th century including the novels My Ántonia and O Pioneers! . But the voice of the private Willa … NET Television premiere is 9 p.m. CT, Monday, Sept. 21. The 30-minute documentary features 11 letters, mostly from her …
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61st Annual Spring Conference Call for Papers

… Call for Papers September 8, 2015 “Both Bitter and Sweet”: Cather, Literature, and the Great War CALL FOR PAPERS The … First World War and represent a time to re-examine Cather’s writing of that period, particularly her 1922 novel One of … Tracy Tucker, along with a short resumé or vita ( ttucker@willacather.org ).  The 61st annual Willa Cather Spring …
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Albertinis Become Charter Members of Legacy Society

… Albertinis Become Charter Members of Legacy Society July 23, 2015 Dr. Virgil Albertini and his wife Dolores first … 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

… 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

… Alexander's Bridge (1912) February: O 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, the …
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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 … Murphy graves remain. James Murphy was the prototype for  My Ántonia 's Larry Donovan. He died of tuberculosis in …
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Cloverton Cemetery

… are buried. Anna and John Pavelka are prototypes for Ántonia Shimerda Cuzak and Anton Cuzak of  My Antonia  and the Rosickys of "Neighbour Rosicky." Country …
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Special Offer: Cather Country Retreat

… Image Special Offer: Cather Country Retreat October 13, 2014 The Willa Cather Foundation is offering an … in some of Willa Cather's most beloved novels, such as My Ántonia , O Pioneers! , and The Song of the Lark . Join us …
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