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A Special Challenge Grant Opportunity
… perspective on youth has changed. My Ántonia was a poetic invitation to cherish the happiness of my adolescence. I am …
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Visit
… Visit Visit the Museum No study of Cather is complete without a trip to Red Cloud. The National Willa Cather Center is an award-winning museum in the heart …
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Annotations From the Archives: Ask-An-Archivist
… Blackman Sell in a short article for the Chicago Daily News , Cather is "pronounced to rhyme with rather, if you …
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Richard Harris Plans for a Legacy Gift
… were all taken, so I looked and said, ‘Well, I did read My Ántonia a few years ago and liked it a lot,’” Harris … didn’t hit Red Cloud, but you know, I think so much of my enjoyment has been sharing those experiences, and not … are certainly one of the many positive things in my life,” Harris said. Harris’s latest interest has been …
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Experience America’s Literary Legacy
… Red Cloud with a fresh idea of Willa Cather and the Great Plains. Come witness the sites and sounds that changed … is her childhood bedroom and its original wallpaper in The Song of the Lark or the Miner House that became the Harling …
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Support
… The Center occupies Red Cloud’s historic “Moon Block,” an 1887 structure that was fully restored and given new life as … uses the depot as a setting in many of her works, like My Ántonia , “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” Lucy Gayheart , and an …
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Emily Caroline Cather's Trunk
… their migration. Like the character she inspired in My Ántonia , Emily Caroline Smith Cather moved to Nebraska … the Garbers in A Lost Lady , the Burdens and Miners in My Ántonia , and Dr. Archie in The Song of the Lark . … as Emmaline Burden, is an important character in My Ántonia as the grandmother of the novel's narrator, Jim …
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Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead
… Pavelka was the inspiration for Ántonia Shimerda, arguably Willa Cather's most famous character and the namesake for her 1918 … site/object/person important to the life and writing of Willa Cather? We hope this two-fold interpretive strategy …
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The Potter-Wright Building's New Life as Hotel Garber
… Rendering of Hotel Garber The Potter-Wright Building's New Life as Hotel Garber New Downtown Event Space and Guest Accommodations … an elevator to provide visitors with full access to our new permanent exhibit, Making a Place: A Long History of …
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Membership
… Membership Members Make It Happen Willa Cather Foundation … Cather Foundation’s celebrated past and exciting future. Become a Member Become a Member Renew Your Membership Renew Your Membership …
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