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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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Small Town Big Dreams

… Small Town Big Dreams March 3, 2010 "On my way East I broke my journey at Hastings, in … in front that sloped down to the highroad." -- My Ántonia by Willa Cather The Hastings/Adams County Convention …
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Antonia's Accent

… over the first syllable in her memorable character's name — Ántonia — to indicate the greater stress that syllable would … the accent in our references to the character or to My Antonia. Some of these visitors will, with justification, … come in search of Antonia. If all references here were to Ántonia, visitors who come via Internet search engines would …
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Elderhostel

… :  Orientation Lectures and Class discussion : Novels:  My Ántonia, A Lost Lady , Death Comes for the Archbishop Short … All meals 4 nights of lodging at Green Acres Entertainment (3 nights) Refreshments Transportation during programs 4-day …
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"Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing"

… Image "Food, Drink, and Willa Cather's Writing" July 23, 2009 The 2010 Willa Cather Spring … Girl, Death Comes for the Archbishop Cookbooks (The Cather Foundation Archives contains the Cather family collection of …
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Cather Inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame

… which she won the Pulitzer Prize, is World War I France; Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) is set in the nineteenth-century American …
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2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference

… Image 2014 Willa Cather Spring Conference March 13, 2014 Mapping Literary … In O Pioneers! and My Ántonia , Cather was the first American novelist to treat the Plains of Nebraska as … Cather mapped many other literary landscapes: the Southwest in three novels, colonial Quebec in Shadows on the …
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