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Willa Cather & John William "Blind Boone"

… whom Willa Cather based her character of Blind d'Arnault in My Ántonia. Free and open to the public. …
Posted: 06/09/2025
Last Updated: 06/09/2025

Ollie Webb Center's Short Film Screening & Panel Discussion

… Image Inspired by The Professor's House & My Ántonia Spring Conference Friday, Jun 6, 2025 | 10:30 - 11:30am CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster …
Posted: 05/19/2025
Last Updated: 05/22/2025

Creative Panel: The Kilbanes

… Cipkowski Spring Conference Saturday, Jun 7, 2025 | 10:30 - 11:45am CT National Willa Cather Center 413 N. Webster … the acclaimed musical duo currently adapting Willa Cather's My Ántonia into an original stage musical. Commissioned by …
Posted: 05/19/2025
Last Updated: 05/22/2025

The Kilbanes

… Saturday, Jun 7, 2025 | 8 - 9pm CT Red Cloud Opera House 413 North Webster Street Red Cloud , NE 68970 United States … Carol (A.C.T., Pam McKinnon dir.), The Code (A.C.T.), My Ántonia (Next Generation Commission, Theatre Latte Da in …
Posted: 05/13/2025
Last Updated: 05/19/2025

Guided Willa Cather Tours

… Guided Willa Cather Tours The National Willa Cather Center and many of our historic sites are open … homesteads and the prairies and river where the Cather children played and explored.  Learn More School Field Trip …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/15/2025

Nothing But Land: Willa Cather and Indigenous Writers

… for the Arts and Arts Midwest, we are making programs and resources available to organizations and communities that … for participating organizations and communities Book club resources Lectures and book discussions led by National … Image Image Karla Hernandez Torrijos About the Workshop Teacher Karla Hernandez Torrijos (she/her) is a poet and …
Posted: 05/05/2025
Last Updated: 05/13/2025

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 … the farmstead served as the setting for the final scenes of My Ántonia . Anna Sadilek Pavelka was the inspiration for …
Posted: 09/04/2024
Last Updated: 04/30/2025

Lodging at the Cather Second Home Guest House

… for our guests. Haverford Room Named after the town in  Lucy Gayheart , Haverford was the room of Cather's brother, …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/28/2025

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 …
Posted: 02/12/2025
Last Updated: 03/27/2025

Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up

… Poster, United State Office of War Information, 1943 Annotations from the Archives: Use It Up February 7, 2025 … as different as bankers and Boy Scouts. It addressed myriad social problems from poverty and debt to the … Pavelka, the Webster County woman who was immortalized as Ántonia Shimerda in Cather’s novel My Ántonia , was locally …
Posted: 02/05/2025
Last Updated: 02/11/2025

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