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Welcome to the home of Willa Cather

… Prize-winning author. Sign up for our E-Newsletter! Become a Member Become a Donor …
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Schoolhouse Enters Portfolio of Historic Structures

… Yost School – formerly the North Star School, District 81, pictured here prior to its recent relocation Schoolhouse … would later become fixtures in her literature, including  My Ántonia ,  One of Ours , and “The Best Years.” When repair …
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Serena's Album

… was made by a precocious 14-year-old signing herself “Wm. Cather M.D.” This entry by Serena’s classmate Willa Cather … theorizes that Serena came to Red Cloud to continue her studies with J. F. Curran, the very popular Superior High … photographer, of German parentage. He appears in an 1899 volume entitled Biographies and Portraits of the Progressive …
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Reading Willa Cather — Building Community

… schools, and organizations to come together to read My Ántonia or Death Comes for the Archbishop , two of Cather’s most beloved works. Why These Novels My Ántonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop are stories …
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Support

… and given new life as the National Willa Cather Center. Become a Member Shop the Bookstore Become a Member Become a Member Make A Donation Make A …
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Travel Through the Pages of American Literature

… Image Travel Through the Pages of American Literature Discover Willa Cather and Red Cloud "I'm not … depart Red Cloud with a fresh idea of Willa Cather and the Great Plains. Come witness the sites and sounds that changed …
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Finding Aids

… (Heinemann, London) Faxon Field, Theron Field, Emilia R. Flower, Newman Foote Raffy, Katherine Fox, Howard Freeman, … and journals, Union College, Western Literature, Prairie Schooner, etc   Box 46 Cassettes and Recordings … Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröck   bookmarks throughout; underlining throughout. "W. Cather …
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Amy Balmanno

Image Amy Balmanno Fresno, CA Amy Balmanno is a great-great-granddaughter of Anna and John Pavelka. I grew up in California and spent many summers in Blue Hill with my great-grandmother, Antonette Pavelka Kort. When she first read My Ántonia as a …
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Amy L. Springer

Image Amy L. Springer Red Cloud, Nebraska Originally from New Orleans, Amy Springer first came to Red Cloud as a Willa Cather enthusiast and recent family medicine residency graduate. I later made Red Cloud home, serving as a rural physician, and am now …
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Jack F. Preis

… traveler of the Midwest and Great Plains. "I first read My Ántonia in college while, during my summers, I was working on a farm in Illinois. When I read …
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