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New Items Join our Collection

… collection are four of the original Benda illustrations to My Ántonia . These illustrations join two additional Benda … in the novel when it was released in 1918. The image of Ántonia driving cattle in a blizzard (shown to the right) is …
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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

… 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

… Red Cloud, discover Cather and recognize her not just as a Nebraska or Midwest writer, but as one of the best American …
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2015 Scholarships Awarded

… at Queen of the Holy Rosary School; Sherri Hoye of LaVista, Nebraska, who Teaches 9th through 12th grade English at … Catholic High School in Omaha; Pamela Vap of Hastings, Nebraska, who teachers junior high and high school English … school in San Francisco; and Roxanne Whiting of Gothenberg, Nebraska, who teaches high school English and "Survey of …
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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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