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… 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 from … husband, Willa’s grandfather, moved to Webster County in 1877. The Cather’s pioneer settlement of the Great Plains …
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Reinterpreting the Pavelka Farmstead
… A new permanent exhibit "We turned to leave the cave; Ántonia and I went up the stairs first, and the children … cave into the sunlight. It made me dizzy for a moment." - My Ántonia Image Located in rural Webster County, near … Cather's most famous character and the namesake for her 1918 novel. The floor plan of house was restored to its …
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Abbie Loomis looks to protect Cather sites that offer profound understanding of the immigrant experience
… Willa Cather. Her mother was a voracious reader, and My Ántonia was among the Cather books on her shelf the day … Cather’s most famous character and the namesake for her 1918 novel, My Ántonia. “You can see it now, the children …
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Jaydene Miner Drew Joins the Cather Legacy Society to Preserve Ancestral Home
… generation in the J.L. Miner House, or the Harling House in My Ántonia . He was the grandson of the home’s namesake and son … After her quick stop in Red Cloud with her father in the 1990s, Jaydene began researching her Miner family history …
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A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society
… of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society July 13, 2016 “ I feel blessed that I’m from Red Cloud. There is … glad he was from Red Cloud. That has brought Cather into my life, and so many meaningful experiences and … experience of being in Cather’s hometown. “If you read My Ántonia , for example, the land truly becomes one of the …
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Personal Connections to Cather’s Hometown Inspire Kohout’s Legacy Gift
… Kohout’s great grandmother, Belle K. Simons, died in 1972 at 102 years old and is buried in her hometown of Red … Cather’s writing for the first time. “Like many students, my entry [to Cather] was My Ántonia ,” Kohout said. “It just spoke to me. Her writing …
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Annotations from the Archives: Teaching with Primary Sources
… visit to the archives, where the documents of the past 150 years can be examined in close detail. Our archivist, … Detective" Educators can put these resources to use in myriad ways. Bellringers that use archival resources are … This cartoon , though published thirty years before My Ántonia , draws inspiration from a popular motif that Cather …
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One-Day Bus Tour to the National Willa Cather Center
… Omaha & Lincoln to Red Cloud Special Events Tuesday, Sep 16, 2025 | All day CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N … Home, and visit other settings from her acclaimed novel My Ántonia . An all-inclusive fee of $175 includes round-trip …
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An Immersive Willa Cather Experience
… in Europe where I used to love to go." —Willa Cather, 1945 Book a Two-Day Cather Immersion Package From her quaint … more than twenty Cather-related sites on the Willa Cather Guided Country Tour (weather permitting) 1:30 pm — Free … per student — Lodging is booked separately. Please schedule your visit at least two weeks in advance of your intended …
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