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2016 Scholarship Recipients

… of the Norma Ross Walter and Antonette Willa Skupa Turner scholarships. Ashley Morrison of Millard South High School … a frequent visitor to Red Cloud, and a firm believer in education for young women. The Antonette Willa Skupa Turner … talented young people and are a fundamental part of our educational mission. For more information about the …
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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 …
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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 … Janis Stout, the NET project includes original video, audio, photography, and commentary. The voice of Willa …
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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 …
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Albertinis Become Charter Members of Legacy Society

… one of the annual gatherings since that time. “I first read My Ántonia as a sophomore in high school, and Cather has …
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2015 Scholarships Awarded

… School. Educator Scholarship recipients were Brother Jeremy Dominc of Necedah, Wisconsin, who teaches junior high and … Anna Sadilek Pavelka, the prototype and inspiration for Antonia 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

… Pioneers! (1913) March: The Song of the Lark (1915) April: My Ántonia (1918) May: One of Ours (1922) June: A Lost Lady (1923) July: The Professor's House (1925) August: My Mortal Enemy (1926) September: Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) …
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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 the complete dome of heaven, all there was of it.” — My Ántonia Country Tour United States …
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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 … Murphy graves remain. James Murphy was the prototype for  My Ántonia 's Larry Donovan. He died of tuberculosis in … always able to make some foolish heart ache over it.” — My Antonia Country Tour United States …
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